The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 11, sentence 9
So the girl set forth, after bidding farewell to the cows and the cats and the sparrows, who all wept as they said good-bye.
Who acts: girl, cows, cats · What happens: set, bid, weep, say · To what, where: good bye · 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 (girl, cows, 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 set | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 girl | det |
| 3 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 set | nsubj |
| 4 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 4 set | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 bidding | punct |
| 7 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 8 bidding | mark |
| 8 | bidding | bid | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 set | advcl |
| 9 | farewell | farewell | ADV | _ | 8 bidding | advmod |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 cows | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 cows | det |
| 12 | cows | cow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 bidding | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 cats | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 cats | det |
| 15 | cats | cat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 cows | conj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 sparrows | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 sparrows | det |
| 18 | sparrows | sparrow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 cows | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 wept | punct |
| 20 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 wept | nsubj |
| 21 | all | all | ADV | _ | 22 wept | advmod |
| 22 | wept | weep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 cows | conj |
| 23 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 25 said | mark |
| 24 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 said | nsubj |
| 25 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 wept | advcl |
| 26 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 bye | amod |
| 27 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 good | punct |
| 28 | bye | bye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 said | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set | participle | the girl | forth property | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | bid | gerund | the girl not said here | to the cows and the cats and the sparrows; farewell property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | weep | past | the cows and the cats and the sparrows | all property | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | cats = cat | good bye | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent bye=Topic |
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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