The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 11, sentence 102
Now the goldsmith really could not swim, and as soon as he was thrown into the deep river he sank below the surface; so his enemies went away believing that they had seen the last of him.
Who acts: goldsmith, enemies, villagers · What happens: not swim, throw, sink, go away, believe, see · To what, where: Goldsmith, deep river, surface · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (goldsmith, enemies, villagers), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 swim | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 goldsmith | det |
| 3 | goldsmith | goldsmith | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 swim | nsubj |
| 4 | really | really | ADV | _ | 7 swim | advmod |
| 5 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 swim | aux |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 swim | advmod |
| 7 | swim | swim | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 thrown | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 thrown | cc |
| 10 | as | as | ADV | _ | 11 soon | advmod |
| 11 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 15 thrown | advmod |
| 12 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 15 thrown | mark |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 thrown | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 thrown | aux:pass |
| 15 | thrown | throw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 swim | parataxis |
| 16 | into | into | ADP | _ | 19 river | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 river | det |
| 18 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 river | amod |
| 19 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 thrown | obl |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 sank | nsubj |
| 21 | sank | sink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 river | acl:relcl |
| 22 | below | below | ADP | _ | 24 surface | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 surface | det |
| 24 | surface | surface | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 sank | obl |
| 25 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 went | punct |
| 26 | so | so | ADV | _ | 29 went | advmod |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 enemies | nmod:poss |
| 28 | enemies | enemy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 went | nsubj |
| 29 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 thrown | conj |
| 30 | away | away | ADV | _ | 29 went | advmod |
| 31 | believing | believe | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 29 went | advcl |
| 32 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 35 seen | mark |
| 33 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 seen | nsubj |
| 34 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 seen | aux |
| 35 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 31 believing | ccomp |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 last | det |
| 37 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 seen | conj |
| 38 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 him | case |
| 39 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 last | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 swim | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not swim | could | the goldsmith | now | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | throw | past · passive | Goldsmith | into the deep river result; soon property | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: subject=Theme into river=Result | ||||
| 3 | sink | past | Goldsmith | the deep river not said here | the surface | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent river=Patient | |||
| 4 | go away | past | Goldsmith's enemies | away property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | believe | gerund | Goldsmith's enemies not said here | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 6 | see | past · perfect | villagers = villager | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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