The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 12, sentence 76
He tied his horse to a tree, and followed where the sound led him, and, to his surprise, he saw before him a beautiful girl chopping wood, with a wreath of pink rose-buds, out of which the singing came.
Who acts: son, sound, beautiful girl, singing · What happens: tie, follow, lead, see, chop, come · To what, where: horse, son, beautiful girl, wood, wreath
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 (son, sound, beautiful girl, singing), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 tied | nsubj |
| 2 | tied | tie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 horse | nmod:poss |
| 4 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 tied | obj |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 tree | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 tree | det |
| 7 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 tied | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 followed | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 followed | cc |
| 10 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 tied | conj |
| 11 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 14 led | advmod |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 sound | det |
| 13 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 led | nsubj |
| 14 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 followed | advcl |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 led | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 saw | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 saw | cc |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 and | punct |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 surprise | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 surprise | nmod:poss |
| 21 | surprise | surprise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 saw | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 surprise | punct |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 saw | nsubj |
| 24 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 tied | conj |
| 25 | before | before | ADP | _ | 26 him | case |
| 26 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 saw | obl |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 girl | det |
| 28 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 girl | amod |
| 29 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 saw | obj |
| 30 | chopping | chop | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 29 girl | acl |
| 31 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 chopping | obj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 wreath | punct |
| 33 | with | with | ADP | _ | 35 wreath | case |
| 34 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 wreath | det |
| 35 | wreath | wreath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 saw | obl |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 buds | case |
| 37 | pink | pink | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 buds | amod |
| 38 | rose | rose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 buds | compound |
| 39 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 38 rose | punct |
| 40 | buds | bud | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 wreath | nmod |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 came | punct |
| 42 | out | out | ADP | _ | 44 which | case |
| 43 | of | of | ADP | _ | 44 which | case |
| 44 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 47 came | obl |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 singing | det |
| 46 | singing | singing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 came | nsubj |
| 47 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 wreath | acl:relcl |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 tied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tie | past | son | son's horse | to a tree | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent horse=Patient to tree=Co-Patient | |||
| 2 | follow | past | son not said here | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | lead | past | the sound | son | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 4 | see | past | son | a beautiful girl | before sound | to son's surprise; with a wreath of pink rose buds | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer girl=Stimulus | ||
| 5 | chop | gerund | a beautiful girl not said here | wood | vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wood=Patient | ||||
| 6 | come | past | the singing | a wreath of pink rose buds | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme out which=Initial_Location | ||||
| 7 | surprise | son | nom surprise «feeling transitive»: poss=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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