The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 13, sentence 91
He took the path leading to the door of the hut, but stopped on feeling a hand laid on his shoulder.
Who acts: man, path · What happens: take, lead, stop on, feel, lay · To what, where: path, hand, shoulder
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 (man, path), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 took | nsubj |
| 2 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 path | det |
| 4 | path | path | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 took | obj |
| 5 | leading | lead | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 path | acl |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 door | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 door | det |
| 8 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 leading | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 hut | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 hut | det |
| 11 | hut | hut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 door | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 stopped | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 stopped | cc |
| 14 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 took | conj |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 stopped | compound:prt |
| 16 | feeling | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 stopped | xcomp |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 hand | det |
| 18 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 feeling | obj |
| 19 | laid | lay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 hand | acl |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 shoulder | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 shoulder | nmod:poss |
| 22 | shoulder | shoulder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 laid | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | man | the path | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent path=Theme | ||||
| 2 | lead | gerund | the path not said here | to the door of the hut | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to door=Patient | ||||
| 3 | stop on | past | man not said here | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | feel | gerund | man not said here | a hand | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme | ||||
| 5 | lay | participle | a hand not said here | man's shoulder | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on shoulder=Destination |
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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