The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 11, sentence 77
Presently a rich stranger came along the lane, and seeing someone there, as he supposed, he said:
Who acts: rich stranger, stranger · What happens: come, see, suppose, say · To what, where: lane, someone · 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 (rich stranger, stranger), 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 | Presently | presently | ADV | _ | 5 came | advmod |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 stranger | det |
| 3 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 stranger | amod |
| 4 | stranger | stranger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 came | nsubj |
| 5 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 said | advcl |
| 6 | along | along | ADP | _ | 8 lane | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 lane | det |
| 8 | lane | lane | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 came | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 seeing | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 seeing | cc |
| 11 | seeing | see | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 came | advcl |
| 12 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 11 seeing | obj |
| 13 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 seeing | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 supposed | punct |
| 15 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 17 supposed | mark |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 supposed | nsubj |
| 17 | supposed | suppose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 seeing | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 came | punct |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 said | nsubj |
| 20 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 21 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 20 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | a rich stranger | the lane | presently property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme along lane=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | see | gerund | a rich stranger not said here | someone | there | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer someone=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | suppose | past | stranger | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | stranger | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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