The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 8, sentence 94
No, it is not a young turkey, certainly,' whispered she in confidence to the mother, 'for though it is lean and skinny, and has no colour to speak of, yet there is something rather distinguished about it, and it holds its head up well.'
Who acts: neighbour, young turkey, something · What happens: not be, whisper, be, have, speak, hold · To what, where: young turkey, duck, mother, confidence, colour, head · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (neighbour, young turkey, something), 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 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 8 turkey | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 No | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 turkey | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 turkey | cop |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 turkey | advmod |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 turkey | det |
| 7 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 turkey | amod |
| 8 | turkey | turkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 whispered | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 turkey | punct |
| 10 | certainly | certainly | ADV | _ | 8 turkey | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 turkey | punct |
| 12 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 turkey | punct |
| 13 | whispered | whisper | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 whispered | obj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 confidence | case |
| 16 | confidence | confidence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 whispered | obl |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 mother | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 mother | det |
| 19 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 whispered | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 ' | punct |
| 21 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 whispered | punct |
| 22 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 26 lean | mark |
| 23 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 26 lean | mark |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 lean | nsubj |
| 25 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 lean | cop |
| 26 | lean | lean | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 whispered | ccomp |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 skinny | cc |
| 28 | skinny | skinny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 lean | conj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 has | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 has | cc |
| 31 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 lean | parataxis |
| 32 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 33 colour | det |
| 33 | colour | colour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 has | obj |
| 34 | to | to | PART | _ | 35 speak | mark |
| 35 | speak | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 colour | acl |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 speak | obl |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 is | punct |
| 38 | yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 40 is | cc |
| 39 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 40 is | expl |
| 40 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 has | conj |
| 41 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 40 is | nsubj |
| 42 | rather | rather | ADV | _ | 43 distinguished | advmod |
| 43 | distinguished | distinguished | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 something | amod |
| 44 | about | about | ADP | _ | 45 it | case |
| 45 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 distinguished | obl |
| 46 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 49 holds | punct |
| 47 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 49 holds | cc |
| 48 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 49 holds | nsubj |
| 49 | holds | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 whispered | parataxis |
| 50 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 51 head | nmod:poss |
| 51 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 holds | obj |
| 52 | up | up | ADV | _ | 53 well | advmod |
| 53 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 49 holds | advmod |
| 54 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 49 holds | punct |
| 55 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 49 holds | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a | present | neighbour | a young turkey | certainly property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | whisper speech: assert | past | a young turkey | duck | the mother | confidence | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Topic to mother=Recipient | ||
| 3 | is | present | neighbour | lean property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | be | neighbour not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | have | present | no colour | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent colour=Patient | |||||
| 6 | speak speech: other | to-infinitive | no colour not said here | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | be | present | something | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 8 | hold | present | neighbour | neighbour's head | well property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=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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