The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 1, sentence 103
Then the man seized me, and pulling a hair from his moustache, tied me to this tree--even as you see me.'
Who acts: man, pulling, you · What happens: seize, pull, tie, see · To what, where: me, hair, moustache
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, pulling, you), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 seized | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 man | det |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 seized | nsubj |
| 4 | seized | seize | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 seized | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 tied | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 tied | cc |
| 8 | pulling | pull | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 tied | csubj |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 hair | det |
| 10 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 pulling | obj |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 moustache | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 moustache | nmod:poss |
| 13 | moustache | moustache | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 pulling | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 pulling | punct |
| 15 | tied | tie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 seized | conj |
| 16 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 tied | obj |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 tree | case |
| 18 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 tree | det |
| 19 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 tied | obl |
| 20 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 24 see | punct |
| 21 | even | even | ADV | _ | 24 see | advmod |
| 22 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 24 see | mark |
| 23 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 see | nsubj |
| 24 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 seized | conj |
| 25 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 see | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 seized | punct |
| 27 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 seized | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seize | past | the man | me | then | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | |||
| 2 | pull | gerund | a hair | hero's moustache | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent hair=Theme from moustache=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | tie | past | pulling | me | to this tree | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent i=Patient to tree=Co-Patient | |||
| 4 | see | present | you | me | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus |
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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