The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 10, sentence 33
She soon left the meadow and turned into a path which ran between two flowery hedges.
Who acts: clematis, path · What happens: leave, turn, run · To what, where: meadow, path, two flowery hedges
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 (clematis, path), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 left | nsubj |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 left | advmod |
| 3 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 meadow | det |
| 5 | meadow | meadow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 left | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 turned | cc |
| 7 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 left | conj |
| 8 | into | into | ADP | _ | 10 path | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 path | det |
| 10 | path | path | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 turned | obl |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 ran | nsubj |
| 12 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 path | acl:relcl |
| 13 | between | between | ADP | _ | 16 hedges | case |
| 14 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 hedges | nummod |
| 15 | flowery | flowery | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 hedges | amod |
| 16 | hedges | hedge | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 ran | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 left | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | past | clematis | the meadow | soon property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meadow=Theme | |||
| 2 | turn | past | clematis not said here | a path | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into path=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | run | past | a path | two flowery hedges | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme between hedge=Trajectory |
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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