The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 12, sentence 36
'Good-bye,' she said, picking up the axe, and went her way homewards.
Who acts: stepmother · What happens: say, pick up, go · To what, where: axe, way homewards · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (stepmother), 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 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Good | punct |
| 2 | Good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 said | ccomp |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 bye | punct |
| 4 | bye | bye | INTJ | _ | 2 Good | flat |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Good | punct |
| 6 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Good | punct |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 said | nsubj |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 picking | punct |
| 10 | picking | pick | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 said | advcl |
| 11 | up | up | ADP | _ | 10 picking | compound:prt |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 axe | det |
| 13 | axe | axe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 picking | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 went | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 went | cc |
| 16 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | conj |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 homewards | nmod:poss |
| 18 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 homewards | compound |
| 19 | homewards | homeward | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 went | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | stepmother | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | pick up | gerund | stepmother not said here | the axe | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent axe=Topic | ||||
| 3 | go | past | stepmother not said here | stepmother's way homewards | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location homeward=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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