The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 12, sentence 77
Standing in the shelter of a tree, he watched her a long while, and then, hat in hand, he went up and spoke to her.
Who acts: singing · What happens: stand, watch, go up, speak · To what, where: shelter, horse · 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 (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 | Standing | stand | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 watched | advcl |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 shelter | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 shelter | det |
| 4 | shelter | shelter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Standing | obl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 tree | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 tree | det |
| 7 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 shelter | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Standing | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 watched | nsubj |
| 10 | watched | watch | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 watched | obj |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 while | det |
| 13 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 while | amod |
| 14 | while | while | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 watched | obl:unmarked |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 hat | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 hat | cc |
| 17 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 19 hat | advmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 hat | punct |
| 19 | hat | hat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 watched | obl |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 hand | case |
| 21 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 hat | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 went | punct |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 went | nsubj |
| 24 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 watched | parataxis |
| 25 | up | up | ADP | _ | 24 went | compound:prt |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 spoke | cc |
| 27 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 went | conj |
| 28 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 her | case |
| 29 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 spoke | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 watched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | gerund | singing not said here | the shelter of a tree | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in shelter=Location | ||||
| 2 | watch | past | singing | horse | while | hat in hand obl | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | ||
| 3 | go up | past | singing | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 4 | speak speech: other | past | singing not said here | horse | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to she=Co-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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