The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 1, sentence 106
So when the giants had gone he swept and tidied the camp and put some venison on the fire to roast.
Who acts: giants, Makoma · What happens: go, sweep, tidy, put, roast · To what, where: camp, venison, fire
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 (giants, Makoma), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 8 swept | advmod |
| 2 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 6 gone | mark |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 giants | det |
| 4 | giants | giant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 gone | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 gone | aux |
| 6 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 swept | advcl |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 swept | nsubj |
| 8 | swept | sweep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 tidied | cc |
| 10 | tidied | tidy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 swept | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 camp | det |
| 12 | camp | camp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 tidied | obj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 put | cc |
| 14 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 tidied | conj |
| 15 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 16 venison | det |
| 16 | venison | venison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 put | obj |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 fire | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 fire | det |
| 19 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 put | obl |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 roast | mark |
| 21 | roast | roast | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 put | advcl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 swept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past · perfect | the giants | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | sweep | past | Makoma | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | tidy | past | Makoma not said here | the camp | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | put | infinitive | Makoma not said here | some venison | the fire | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent venison=Theme on fire=Destination | |||
| 5 | roast | to-infinitive | Makoma not said here | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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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