The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 1, sentence 84
And in the midst of this dead region he found a man eating fire.
Who acts: Makoma, man · What happens: find, eat · To what, where: man, midst, fire
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, man), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 found | cc |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 midst | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 midst | det |
| 4 | midst | midst | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 found | obl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 region | case |
| 6 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 region | det |
| 7 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 region | amod |
| 8 | region | region | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 midst | nmod |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 found | nsubj |
| 10 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 man | det |
| 12 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 found | obj |
| 13 | eating | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 man | acl |
| 14 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 eating | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past | Makoma | a man | the midst of this dead region | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Topic | |||
| 2 | eat | gerund | a man not said here | fire | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Patient |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/1/84/