The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 1, sentence 63
He was greater than ever now, for all the giant's strength had gone into him; and he resumed his journey, carrying his burden with as little difficulty as an eagle might carry a hare.
Who acts: Makoma, strength, eagle · What happens: be, go, resume, carry, journey, burden · To what, where: journey, burden, hare
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, strength, eagle), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 greater | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 greater | cop |
| 3 | greater | great | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 4 | than | than | ADP | _ | 6 now | case |
| 5 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 6 now | advmod |
| 6 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 greater | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 gone | punct |
| 8 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 15 gone | mark |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 giant | det:predet |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 giant | det |
| 11 | giant | giant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 strength | nmod:poss |
| 12 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 11 giant | case |
| 13 | strength | strength | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 gone | nsubj |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 gone | aux |
| 15 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 greater | advcl |
| 16 | into | into | ADP | _ | 17 him | case |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 gone | obl |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 resumed | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 resumed | cc |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 resumed | nsubj |
| 21 | resumed | resume | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 greater | conj |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 journey | nmod:poss |
| 23 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 resumed | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 carrying | punct |
| 25 | carrying | carry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 resumed | advcl |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 burden | nmod:poss |
| 27 | burden | burden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 carrying | obj |
| 28 | with | with | ADP | _ | 31 difficulty | case |
| 29 | as | as | ADP | _ | 31 difficulty | case |
| 30 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 difficulty | amod |
| 31 | difficulty | difficulty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 carrying | obl |
| 32 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 36 carry | mark |
| 33 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 eagle | det |
| 34 | eagle | eagle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 carry | nsubj |
| 35 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 36 carry | aux |
| 36 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 carrying | advcl |
| 37 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 hare | det |
| 38 | hare | hare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 carry | obj |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 greater | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Makoma | great property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go | past · perfect | all giant's strength | into Makoma | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into he=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | resume | past | Makoma | Makoma's journey | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent journey=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | carry | gerund | Makoma not said here | Makoma's burden | with little difficulty | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent burden=Theme | |||
| 5 | carry | might | a eagle | a hare | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hare=Theme | ||||
| 6 | journey | Makoma | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 7 | burden | Makoma | nom burden «cognition transitive»: poss=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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