The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 6, sentence 97
'If you were only to see the quantities of them!' laughed the fox. '
Who acts: you · What happens: see, laugh · To what, where: quantities, fox
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 (you), 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 | _ | 7 see | punct |
| 2 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 7 see | mark |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 see | nsubj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 see | aux |
| 5 | only | only | ADV | _ | 7 see | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 see | mark |
| 7 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 laughed | ccomp |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 quantities | det |
| 9 | quantities | quantity | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 see | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 them | case |
| 11 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 quantities | nmod |
| 12 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 7 see | punct |
| 13 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 see | punct |
| 14 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 fox | det |
| 16 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 laughed | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 laughed | punct |
| 18 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 laughed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see a condition, not said to happen | past | you | the quantities of quantities | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer quantity=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | laugh | past | the fox | tree rules |
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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