The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 1, sentence 52
Then, entering his hut he took Nu-endo, his iron hammer, and throwing the sack over his shoulder, he went away.
Who acts: boy · What happens: enter, take, throw, go away · To what, where: hut, Nu endo, sack, shoulder
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 (boy), 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 | 3 entering | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Then | punct |
| 3 | entering | enter | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 took | advcl |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 hut | nmod:poss |
| 5 | hut | hut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 entering | obj |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 took | nsubj |
| 7 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | Nu | Nu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 endo | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 Nu | punct |
| 10 | endo | endo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 took | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 hammer | punct |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 hammer | nmod:poss |
| 13 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 hammer | compound |
| 14 | hammer | hammer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 endo | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 throwing | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 throwing | cc |
| 17 | throwing | throw | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 took | advcl |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 sack | det |
| 19 | sack | sack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 throwing | obj |
| 20 | over | over | ADP | _ | 22 shoulder | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 shoulder | nmod:poss |
| 22 | shoulder | shoulder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 throwing | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 went | punct |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 went | nsubj |
| 25 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 took | conj |
| 26 | away | away | ADV | _ | 25 went | advmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enter | gerund | boy not said here | boy's hut | then | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme hut=Destination | |||
| 2 | take | past | boy | Nu endo and boy's iron hammer | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent endo=Theme | ||||
| 3 | throw | gerund | boy not said here | the sack | boy's shoulder | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent sack=Theme over shoulder=Destination | |||
| 4 | go away | past | boy | away property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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