The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 11, sentence 104
At the place where he landed he came across a fine fat cow buffalo, and immediately he jumped on her back and rode home.
Who acts: enemy · What happens: land, come, jump, ride · To what, where: place, fine cow buffalo, back
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 (enemy), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 place | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 place | det |
| 3 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 landed | obl |
| 4 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 6 landed | advmod |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 landed | nsubj |
| 6 | landed | land | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 came | nsubj |
| 8 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 landed | ccomp |
| 9 | across | across | ADP | _ | 14 buffalo | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 buffalo | det |
| 11 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 buffalo | amod |
| 12 | fat | fat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 cow | compound |
| 13 | cow | cow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 buffalo | compound |
| 14 | buffalo | buffalo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 came | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 jumped | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 jumped | cc |
| 17 | immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 19 jumped | advmod |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 jumped | nsubj |
| 19 | jumped | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 landed | conj |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 back | case |
| 21 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 back | nmod:poss |
| 22 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 jumped | obl |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 rode | cc |
| 24 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 jumped | conj |
| 25 | home | home | ADV | _ | 24 rode | advmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 landed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | land | past | enemy | the place | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | come | past | enemy | a fine cow buffalo | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme across buffalo=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | jump | past | enemy | bush's back | immediately property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on back=Trajectory | |||
| 4 | ride | past | enemy not said here | home property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: 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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