The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 8, sentence 77
Why I could have hatched two broods in the time that this one has taken!'
Who acts: I · What happens: hatch, take · To what, where: two broods, one
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), 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 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 hatched | advmod |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 hatched | nsubj |
| 3 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 hatched | aux |
| 4 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 hatched | aux |
| 5 | hatched | hatch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 taken | advcl |
| 6 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 broods | nummod |
| 7 | broods | brood | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 hatched | obj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 time | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 time | det |
| 10 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hatched | obl |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 taken | mark |
| 12 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 one | det |
| 13 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 taken | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 taken | aux |
| 15 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 16 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 15 taken | punct |
| 17 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 taken | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hatch | could · perfect | I | two broods | time | vn grow-26.2.1 «NP V NP.product PP.patient»: agent=Agent brood=Product | |||
| 2 | take | present · perfect · passive | this one | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: subject=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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