The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 1, sentence 62
So Makoma picked him up and dropped him into the sack that he carried upon his back.
Who acts: Makoma · What happens: pick up, drop, carry · To what, where: Greater, Makoma, sack
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 (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 | _ | 3 picked | advmod |
| 2 | Makoma | Makoma | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 picked | nsubj |
| 3 | picked | pick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 picked | obj |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 picked | compound:prt |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 dropped | cc |
| 7 | dropped | drop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 picked | conj |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 dropped | obj |
| 9 | into | into | ADP | _ | 11 sack | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 sack | det |
| 11 | sack | sack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 dropped | obl |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 carried | mark |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 carried | nsubj |
| 14 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 dropped | advcl |
| 15 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 17 back | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 back | nmod:poss |
| 17 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 carried | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 picked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pick up | past | Makoma | Greater = great | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic | ||||
| 2 | drop | past | Makoma not said here | Makoma | the sack | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme into sack=Destination | |||
| 3 | carry | past | Makoma | upon Makoma's back | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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