The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 1, sentence 23
Slaves carried far from home brought their stories with them into captivity.
Who acts: Slaves · What happens: carry, bring · To what, where: stories, home
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 (Slaves), 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 | Slaves | slave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 carried | nsubj |
| 2 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 2 carried | advmod |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 home | case |
| 5 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 brought | obl |
| 6 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 carried | conj |
| 7 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 stories | nmod:poss |
| 8 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 brought | obj |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 them | case |
| 10 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 brought | obl |
| 11 | into | into | ADP | _ | 12 captivity | case |
| 12 | captivity | captivity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 brought | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 carried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry | past | Slaves | far property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | bring | past | Slaves not said here | Slaves's stories | home | with stories = story; into captivity | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent story=Theme into captivity=Destination |
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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