The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 13, sentence 83
Wandering over the plain, he noticed a troop of gazelles, and pointed to his greyhound to give chase.
Who acts: mourning · What happens: wonder, notice, point, give · To what, where: plain, troop, greyhound, chase
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 (mourning), 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 | Wandering | wonder | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 noticed | advcl |
| 2 | over | over | ADP | _ | 4 plain | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 plain | det |
| 4 | plain | plain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Wandering | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Wandering | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 noticed | nsubj |
| 7 | noticed | notice | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 troop | det |
| 9 | troop | troop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 noticed | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 gazelles | case |
| 11 | gazelles | gazelle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 troop | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 pointed | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 pointed | cc |
| 14 | pointed | point | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 noticed | parataxis |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 greyhound | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 greyhound | nmod:poss |
| 17 | greyhound | greyhound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 pointed | obl |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 give | mark |
| 19 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 pointed | advcl |
| 20 | chase | chase | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 give | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 noticed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wonder speech: ask | gerund | mourning not said here | the plain | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | notice | past | mourning | a troop of gazelles | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer troop=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | point | participle | mourning's greyhound | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to greyhound=Recipient | |||||
| 4 | give | to-infinitive | chase | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chase=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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