The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 12, sentence 29
At last, with her dress torn by brambles that she could not see, and her fact scratched by the twigs on the trees, she reached the spot where she and her father had been cutting in the morning, and found the axe in the place he had left it.
Who acts: mother, twigs, man · What happens: tear, not see, scratch, reach, cut, find · To what, where: dress, fact, last, spot, axe, place
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother, twigs, man), 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 | _ | 2 last | case |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 scratched | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 dress | punct |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 dress | case |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 dress | nmod:poss |
| 6 | dress | dress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 last | conj |
| 7 | torn | tear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 dress | acl |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 brambles | case |
| 9 | brambles | bramble | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 torn | obl |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 see | mark |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 see | nsubj |
| 12 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 see | aux |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 see | advmod |
| 14 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 torn | advcl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 scratched | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 scratched | cc |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 fact | nmod:poss |
| 18 | fact | fact | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 scratched | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | scratched | scratch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 20 | by | by | ADP | _ | 22 twigs | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 twigs | det |
| 22 | twigs | twig | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 scratched | obl |
| 23 | on | on | ADP | _ | 25 trees | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 trees | det |
| 25 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 twigs | nmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 reached | punct |
| 27 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 reached | nsubj |
| 28 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 scratched | conj |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 spot | det |
| 30 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 reached | obj |
| 31 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 38 cutting | advmod |
| 32 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 cutting | nsubj |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 father | cc |
| 34 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 father | nmod:poss |
| 35 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 she | conj |
| 36 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 cutting | aux |
| 37 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 38 cutting | aux |
| 38 | cutting | cut | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 30 spot | acl:relcl |
| 39 | in | in | ADP | _ | 41 morning | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 morning | det |
| 41 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 cutting | obl |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 found | punct |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 found | cc |
| 44 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 reached | conj |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 axe | det |
| 46 | axe | axe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 found | obj |
| 47 | in | in | ADP | _ | 49 place | case |
| 48 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 49 place | det |
| 49 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 found | obl |
| 50 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 52 left | nsubj |
| 51 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 52 left | aux |
| 52 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 49 place | acl:relcl |
| 53 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 52 left | obj |
| 54 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 scratched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tear | participle | mother's dress not said here | by brambles | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by bramble=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | not see | could | mother | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | scratch | participle · passive | the twigs on the trees | mother's fact | last and mother's dress | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent subject=Patient at last=Location | |||
| 4 | reach | past | mother | the spot | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent spot=Theme | ||||
| 5 | cut | past · perfect · progressive | mother | morning | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 6 | find | past | mother not said here | the axe | the place | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent axe=Topic | |||
| 7 | leave | past · perfect | man | axe | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
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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