The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 13, sentence 100

He picked it up in order to examine it more closely, and as he held it the stone spoke.

Who acts: man, stone · What happens: pick up, examine, hold, speak · To what, where: silver, order · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, stone), 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 picked	nsubj
2	picked	pick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 picked	obj
4	up	up	ADP	_	2 picked	compound:prt
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 order	case
6	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 picked	obl
7	to	to	PART	_	8 examine	mark
8	examine	examine	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 picked	advcl
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 examine	obj
10	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	11 closely	advmod
11	closely	closely	ADV	_	8 examine	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 spoke	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 spoke	cc
14	as	as	SCONJ	_	16 held	mark
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 held	nsubj
16	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 spoke	advcl
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 held	obj
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 stone	det
19	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 spoke	nsubj
20	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 picked	parataxis
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 picked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	pick up	past	man	silver	order		vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic
2	examine	to-infinitive	man not said here	silver		closely property	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
3	hold	past	man	silver			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
4	speak speech: other	past	the stone				vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=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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