The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 13, sentence 47
Once a weaver, who was in want of work, took service with a certain farmer as a shepherd.
Who acts: weaver · What happens: be, take · To what, where: want, service
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 (weaver), 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 | Once | once | SCONJ | _ | 3 weaver | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 weaver | det |
| 3 | weaver | weaver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 took | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 want | punct |
| 5 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 want | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 want | cop |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 want | case |
| 8 | want | want | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 weaver | appos |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 work | case |
| 10 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 want | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 weaver | punct |
| 12 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | service | service | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 took | obj |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 farmer | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 farmer | det |
| 16 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 farmer | amod |
| 17 | farmer | farmer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 took | obl |
| 18 | as | as | ADP | _ | 20 shepherd | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 shepherd | det |
| 20 | shepherd | shepherd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 farmer | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | a weaver | want | of work | tree rules | |||
| 2 | take | past | service | once a weaver; with a certain farmer as a shepherd | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent service=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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