The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 1, sentence 91
And now, truly, Makoma was a very great hero; for he had the strength to make hills, the industry to lead rivers over dry wastes, foresight and wisdom in planting trees, and the power of producing fire when he wished.
Who acts: Makoma, power · What happens: be, have, make, lead, plant, produce · To what, where: great hero, strength, hills, rivers, dry wastes, 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, power), 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 | _ | 11 hero | cc |
| 2 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 hero | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 hero | punct |
| 4 | truly | truly | ADV | _ | 11 hero | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 hero | punct |
| 6 | Makoma | Makoma | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 hero | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 hero | cop |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 hero | det |
| 9 | very | very | ADV | _ | 10 great | advmod |
| 10 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 hero | amod |
| 11 | hero | hero | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 had | punct |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 had | case |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 had | nsubj |
| 15 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 hero | conj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 strength | det |
| 17 | strength | strength | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 had | obj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 make | mark |
| 19 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 strength | acl |
| 20 | hills | hill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 make | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 industry | punct |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 industry | det |
| 23 | industry | industry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 strength | conj |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 lead | mark |
| 25 | lead | lead | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 industry | acl |
| 26 | rivers | river | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 lead | obj |
| 27 | over | over | ADP | _ | 29 wastes | case |
| 28 | dry | dry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 wastes | amod |
| 29 | wastes | waste | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 lead | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 foresight | punct |
| 31 | foresight | foresight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 wastes | conj |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 wisdom | cc |
| 33 | wisdom | wisdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 wastes | conj |
| 34 | in | in | ADP | _ | 36 trees | case |
| 35 | planting | plant | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 36 trees | amod |
| 36 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 wisdom | nmod |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 power | punct |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 power | cc |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 power | det |
| 40 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 strength | conj |
| 41 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 42 producing | mark |
| 42 | producing | produce | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 40 power | acl |
| 43 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 producing | obj |
| 44 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 46 wished | advmod |
| 45 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 46 wished | nsubj |
| 46 | wished | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 42 producing | advcl |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 hero | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Makoma | a great hero | now | truly property | tree rules | ||
| 2 | have | past | Makoma | the strength and the industry and the power | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent strength=Patient | ||||
| 3 | make | to-infinitive | Makoma not said here | hills | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset hill=Product | ||||
| 4 | lead | to-infinitive | Makoma not said here | rivers | dry wastes and foresight and wisdom in planting trees | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent river=Theme over waste=Destination | |||
| 5 | plant | gerund | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 6 | produce | gerund | the power not said here | fire | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Result | ||||
| 7 | wish | past | Makoma | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot |
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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