The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 13, sentence 50
The weaver said that he understood, and started with the flocks to the hillsides where they grazed all day.
Who acts: weaver, wolf · What happens: say, understand, start, graze · 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 (weaver, wolf), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 weaver | det |
| 2 | weaver | weaver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 6 understood | mark |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 understood | nsubj |
| 6 | understood | understand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 said | ccomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 started | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 started | cc |
| 9 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 said | conj |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 flocks | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 flocks | det |
| 12 | flocks | flock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 started | obl |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 hillsides | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 hillsides | det |
| 15 | hillsides | hillside | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 started | obl |
| 16 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 18 grazed | advmod |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 grazed | nsubj |
| 18 | grazed | graze | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 started | advcl |
| 19 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 day | det |
| 20 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 grazed | obl:unmarked |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the weaver | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | understand | past | Weaver | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | start | past | the weaver not said here | with the flocks; to the hillsides | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with flock=Subeventuality | ||||
| 4 | graze | past | wolf | day | vn dine-39.5 «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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