The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 7, sentence 2

'Why, it is larger and richer than I thought,' cried she, turning towards the wolf, who was leaning over the wall of the well.

Who acts: water, I · What happens: be, think, cry, turn, lean · To what, where: she, wolf, wall

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (water, I), 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	_	6 larger	punct
2	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 larger	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Why	punct
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 larger	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 larger	cop
6	larger	large	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 richer	cc
8	richer	rich	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 larger	conj
9	than	than	SCONJ	_	11 thought	mark
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 thought	nsubj
11	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 larger	advcl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 cried	punct
13	'	'	PUNCT	_	14 cried	punct
14	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 larger	conj
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 cried	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 turning	punct
17	turning	turn	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 cried	advcl
18	towards	towards	ADP	_	20 wolf	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 wolf	det
20	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 turning	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 leaning	punct
22	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 leaning	nsubj
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 leaning	aux
24	leaning	lean	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	17 turning	conj
25	over	over	ADP	_	27 wall	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 wall	det
27	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 leaning	obl
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 well	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 well	det
30	well	well	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 wall	nmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 larger	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	water			large property	tree rules
2	be		water not said here				tree rules
3	think speech: other	past	I				vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	cry speech: express	past	water not said here	she			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Topic
5	turn	gerund	water not said here		the wolf		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme towards wolf=Trajectory
6	lean	past · progressive			the wall of the well		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over wall=Location

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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