The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 11, sentence 2
Walking in procession, as was their custom, they followed her into the loft, which was filled with caskets big and little, plain and splendid.
Who acts: cats · What happens: walk, be, follow, fill · To what, where: procession, girl, loft
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 (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 | Walking | walk | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 followed | advcl |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 3 procession | case |
| 3 | procession | procession | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Walking | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 custom | punct |
| 5 | as | as | ADP | _ | 8 custom | case |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 custom | cop |
| 7 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 custom | nmod:poss |
| 8 | custom | custom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Walking | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Walking | punct |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 followed | nsubj |
| 11 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 followed | obj |
| 13 | into | into | ADP | _ | 15 loft | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 loft | det |
| 15 | loft | loft | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 followed | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 filled | punct |
| 17 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 filled | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 filled | aux:pass |
| 19 | filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 loft | acl |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 caskets | case |
| 21 | caskets | casket | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 filled | obl |
| 22 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 caskets | amod |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 little | cc |
| 24 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 big | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 plain | punct |
| 26 | plain | plain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 big | conj |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 splendid | cc |
| 28 | splendid | splendid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 big | conj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 followed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | gerund | cats = cat not said here | procession | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in procession=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | is | past | as cats's custom | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | follow | past | cats = cat | girl | the loft | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent she=Theme into loft=Trajectory | |||
| 4 | fill | past · passive | the loft | with caskets | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with casket=Instrument |
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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