The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 8, sentence 1
'Bring hither a boat,' cried the princess, 'that I may go and see for myself the harp that gives forth such music.'
Who acts: I, harp · What happens: bring, cry, go, see, give · To what, where: boat, princess, harp, such music
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, harp), 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 | _ | 2 Bring | punct |
| 2 | Bring | bring | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 8 cried | parataxis |
| 3 | hither | hither | ADV | _ | 2 Bring | advmod |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 boat | det |
| 5 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Bring | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Bring | punct |
| 7 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Bring | punct |
| 8 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 princess | det |
| 10 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 cried | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 cried | punct |
| 12 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 cried | punct |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 go | mark |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 go | nsubj |
| 15 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 go | aux |
| 16 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 cried | advcl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 see | cc |
| 18 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 go | conj |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 myself | case |
| 20 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 18 see | obl |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 harp | det |
| 22 | harp | harp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 see | obj |
| 23 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 gives | nsubj |
| 24 | gives | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 harp | acl:relcl |
| 25 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 24 gives | advmod |
| 26 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 music | amod |
| 27 | music | music | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 gives | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 cried | punct |
| 29 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | infinitive | a boat | hither property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent boat=Theme | ||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | the princess | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Topic | |||||
| 3 | go | may | I | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | see | infinitive | I not said here | the harp | for myself | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer harp=Stimulus | |||
| 5 | give | present | the harp | such music | forth property | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent music=Theme |
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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