The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 13, sentence 68
They ran up and down the bank of the ravine wringing their hands in great distress and looking for signs of their lost comrade.
Who acts: plans · What happens: run up, wring, look, lose, sign · To what, where: hands, great distress, lost comrade
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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 ran | nsubj |
| 2 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | up | up | ADP | _ | 2 ran | compound:prt |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 wringing | cc |
| 5 | down | down | ADP | _ | 7 bank | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 bank | det |
| 7 | bank | bank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 wringing | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 ravine | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 ravine | det |
| 10 | ravine | ravine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 bank | nmod |
| 11 | wringing | wring | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 ran | advcl |
| 12 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 hands | nmod:poss |
| 13 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 wringing | obj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 distress | case |
| 15 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 distress | amod |
| 16 | distress | distress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 wringing | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 looking | cc |
| 18 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 wringing | conj |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 signs | case |
| 20 | signs | sign | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 looking | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 comrade | case |
| 22 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 comrade | nmod:poss |
| 23 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 comrade | amod |
| 24 | comrade | comrade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 signs | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run up | past | plans = plan | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | wring | gerund | plans = plan not said here | plans's hands | great distress | down the bank of the ravine | vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent hand=Theme down bank=Trajectory | ||
| 3 | look | gerund | plans = plan not said here | for signs of plans's lost comrade | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for sign=Theme | ||||
| 4 | lose | participle | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | sign | plans's lost comrade | nom sign «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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