The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 9, sentence 60
'Such a useless creature has taken refuge here,' they said. '
Who acts: hens · What happens: take, say · To what, where: useless creature · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hens), 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 taken | punct |
| 2 | Such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 5 creature | det:predet |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 creature | det |
| 4 | useless | useless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 creature | amod |
| 5 | creature | creature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 taken | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 taken | aux |
| 7 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 said | ccomp |
| 8 | refuge | refuge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 taken | obj |
| 9 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 taken | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 taken | punct |
| 11 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 taken | punct |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 said | nsubj |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
| 15 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | present · perfect · passive | such useless creature | here | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme refuge=Destination | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | hens = hen | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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