The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 13, sentence 84
The dog soon brought down a fine fat beast, and slinging it over his shoulders, the young man turned homewards.
Who acts: dog, young man · What happens: bring down, sling over, turn · To what, where: fine fat beast, dog, homewards
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 (dog, young man), 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 dog | det |
| 2 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 brought | nsubj |
| 3 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 brought | advmod |
| 4 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | down | down | ADP | _ | 4 brought | compound:prt |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 beast | det |
| 7 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 beast | amod |
| 8 | fat | fat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 beast | compound |
| 9 | beast | beast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 brought | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 slinging | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 slinging | cc |
| 12 | slinging | sling | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 brought | advcl |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 slinging | obj |
| 14 | over | over | ADP | _ | 12 slinging | compound:prt |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 shoulders | nmod:poss |
| 16 | shoulders | shoulder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 slinging | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 turned | punct |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 man | det |
| 19 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 man | amod |
| 20 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 turned | nsubj |
| 21 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 brought | conj |
| 22 | homewards | homeward | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 turned | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 brought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring down | past | the dog | a fine fat beast | soon property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent beast=Theme | |||
| 2 | sling over | gerund | the dog not said here | dog | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent it=Destination shoulder=Theme | ||||
| 3 | turn | past | the young man | homewards | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent homeward=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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