The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 11, sentence 1
The girl left the room to go to the loft, and as soon as she got outside, she found all the cats waiting for her.
Who acts: girl, cats · What happens: leave, go, get, find, wait · To what, where: room, loft, cats
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl, cats), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 girl | det |
| 2 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 left | nsubj |
| 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 room | det |
| 5 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 left | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 go | mark |
| 7 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 left | advcl |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 loft | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 loft | det |
| 10 | loft | loft | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 go | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 got | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 got | cc |
| 13 | as | as | ADV | _ | 14 soon | advmod |
| 14 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 17 got | advmod |
| 15 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 17 got | mark |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 got | nsubj |
| 17 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 left | parataxis |
| 18 | outside | outside | ADV | _ | 17 got | advmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 found | punct |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 found | nsubj |
| 21 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 got | conj |
| 22 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 24 cats | det:predet |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 cats | det |
| 24 | cats | cat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 found | obj |
| 25 | waiting | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 24 cats | acl |
| 26 | for | for | ADP | _ | 27 her | case |
| 27 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 waiting | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 left | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | past | the girl | the room | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent room=Theme | ||||
| 2 | go | to-infinitive | the girl not said here | the loft | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to loft=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | get | past | girl | outside, soon property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | find | past | girl | all cats | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cat=Topic | ||||
| 5 | wait | gerund | all cats not said here | for girl | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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