The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 13, sentence 62
So the next morning the seven weavers set out to go to the village where they could buy what they wanted.
Who acts: plans · What happens: set out, go, buy, want · To what, where: next morning, village
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 (plans), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 8 set | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 morning | det |
| 3 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 morning | amod |
| 4 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 set | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 weavers | det |
| 6 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 weavers | nummod |
| 7 | weavers | weaver | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 set | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | out | out | ADP | _ | 8 set | compound:prt |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 go | mark |
| 11 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 set | advcl |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 village | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 village | det |
| 14 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 go | obl |
| 15 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 18 buy | advmod |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 buy | nsubj |
| 17 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 buy | aux |
| 18 | buy | buy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 village | acl:relcl |
| 19 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 21 wanted | obj |
| 20 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 wanted | nsubj |
| 21 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 buy | ccomp |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set out | participle · passive | the next morning | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | go | to-infinitive | the village | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to village=Initial_Location | |||||
| 3 | buy | could | plans = plan | vn accept-77.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | want | past | plans = plan | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot what=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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