The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 6, sentence 113
'Oh, nothing,' replied the fox, much vexed at the failure of her plan.
Who acts: nothing, plan, moon · What happens: reply, vex, fail, plan · To what, where: fox, failure
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (nothing, plan, moon), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 nothing | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 4 nothing | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 7 replied | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 nothing | punct |
| 6 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 nothing | punct |
| 7 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 fox | det |
| 9 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 replied | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 vexed | punct |
| 11 | much | much | ADV | _ | 12 vexed | advmod |
| 12 | vexed | vex | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 replied | conj |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 failure | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 failure | det |
| 15 | failure | failure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 vexed | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 plan | case |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 plan | nmod:poss |
| 18 | plan | plan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 failure | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | nothing | the fox | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent fox=Topic | ||||
| 2 | vex | participle | nothing not said here | the failure of moon's plan | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | fail | moon's plan | nom failure «act intransitive»: of=agent | ||||||
| 4 | plan | moon | nom plan «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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