The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 10, sentence 113
And they jumped on the loom, and wove so fast and so skilfully that in a very short time the cloth was ready and was as fine as any king ever wore.
Who acts: cats, cloth, king · What happens: jump, weave, be, wear · To what, where: loom
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cats, cloth, king), 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 | _ | 3 jumped | cc |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 jumped | nsubj |
| 3 | jumped | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 loom | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 loom | det |
| 6 | loom | loom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 jumped | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 wove | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 wove | cc |
| 9 | wove | weave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 jumped | conj |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 11 fast | advmod |
| 11 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 9 wove | advmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 skilfully | cc |
| 13 | so | so | ADV | _ | 14 skilfully | advmod |
| 14 | skilfully | skilfully | ADV | _ | 11 fast | conj |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 24 ready | mark |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 time | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 time | det |
| 18 | very | very | ADV | _ | 19 short | advmod |
| 19 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 time | amod |
| 20 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 ready | obl |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 cloth | det |
| 22 | cloth | cloth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 ready | nsubj |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 ready | cop |
| 24 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 wove | advcl |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 fine | cc |
| 26 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 fine | cop |
| 27 | as | as | ADV | _ | 28 fine | advmod |
| 28 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 jumped | conj |
| 29 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 33 wore | mark |
| 30 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 31 king | det |
| 31 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 wore | nsubj |
| 32 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 33 wore | advmod |
| 33 | wore | wear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 fine | advcl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 jumped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | jump | past | cats = cat | the loom | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on loom=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | weave | past | cats = cat not said here | fast property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | past | the cloth | time | ready property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | is | past | cats = cat not said here | fine property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | wear | past | any king | ever | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: 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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