The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 1, sentence 64
Before long he came to a country broken up with huge stones and immense clods of earth.
Who acts: Makoma · What happens: come, break up · To what, where: country
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 | Before | before | ADP | _ | 2 long | case |
| 2 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 came | obl |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 country | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 country | det |
| 7 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | obl |
| 8 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 country | acl |
| 9 | up | up | ADP | _ | 8 broken | compound:prt |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 stones | case |
| 11 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 stones | amod |
| 12 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 broken | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 clods | cc |
| 14 | immense | immense | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 clods | amod |
| 15 | clods | clod | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 stones | conj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 earth | case |
| 17 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 clods | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | Makoma | a country | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to country=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | break up | participle | a country not said here | with huge stones and immense clods of earth | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with stone=Instrument |
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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