The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 13, sentence 87
The young man picked it up, and put it in his pouch and then went towards home again.
Who acts: young man · What happens: pick up, put, go · To what, where: wrist, pouch, home
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 (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 | 3 man | det |
| 2 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 man | amod |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 picked | nsubj |
| 4 | picked | pick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 picked | obj |
| 6 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 picked | compound:prt |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 put | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 put | cc |
| 9 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 picked | advcl |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 put | obj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 pouch | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 pouch | nmod:poss |
| 13 | pouch | pouch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 put | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 went | cc |
| 15 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 went | advmod |
| 16 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 picked | conj |
| 17 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 18 home | case |
| 18 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 went | obl |
| 19 | again | again | ADV | _ | 16 went | advmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 picked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pick up | past | the young man | wrist | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic | ||||
| 2 | put | infinitive | the young man not said here | wrist | man's pouch | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in pouch=Destination | |||
| 3 | go | past | the young man not said here | home | then; again | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme towards home=Initial_Location |
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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