The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 14, sentence 101
So they waited, seated on the highest chairs they could find, wrapped in their warmest garments, and with piles of cushions under their feet, while the poor birds flew with numbed wings hither and thither, till they were so lucky as to discover an open window in some forgotten corner.
Who acts: ladies, poor birds, birds · What happens: wait, seat, find, wrap, fly, numb · To what, where: highest chairs, warmest garments, open window, forgotten corner
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ladies, poor birds, birds), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 waited | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 waited | nsubj |
| 3 | waited | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 seated | punct |
| 5 | seated | seat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 waited | conj |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 chairs | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 chairs | det |
| 8 | highest | high | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 9 chairs | amod |
| 9 | chairs | chair | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 seated | obl |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 find | nsubj |
| 11 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 find | aux |
| 12 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 chairs | acl:relcl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 wrapped | punct |
| 14 | wrapped | wrap | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 waited | conj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 garments | case |
| 16 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 garments | nmod:poss |
| 17 | warmest | warm | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 18 garments | amod |
| 18 | garments | garment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 wrapped | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 flew | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 flew | cc |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 piles | case |
| 22 | piles | pile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 flew | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 cushions | case |
| 24 | cushions | cushion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 piles | nmod |
| 25 | under | under | ADP | _ | 27 feet | case |
| 26 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 feet | nmod:poss |
| 27 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 cushions | nmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 flew | punct |
| 29 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 33 flew | mark |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 birds | det |
| 31 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 birds | amod |
| 32 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 flew | nsubj |
| 33 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 waited | conj |
| 34 | with | with | ADP | _ | 36 wings | case |
| 35 | numbed | numb | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 36 wings | amod |
| 36 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 flew | obl |
| 37 | hither | hither | ADV | _ | 36 wings | advmod |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 thither | cc |
| 39 | thither | thither | ADV | _ | 37 hither | conj |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 lucky | punct |
| 41 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 45 lucky | mark |
| 42 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 45 lucky | nsubj |
| 43 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 45 lucky | cop |
| 44 | so | so | ADV | _ | 45 lucky | advmod |
| 45 | lucky | lucky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 flew | conj |
| 46 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 48 discover | mark |
| 47 | to | to | PART | _ | 48 discover | mark |
| 48 | discover | discover | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 45 lucky | advcl |
| 49 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 51 window | det |
| 50 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 51 window | amod |
| 51 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 discover | obj |
| 52 | in | in | ADP | _ | 55 corner | case |
| 53 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 55 corner | det |
| 54 | forgotten | forget | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 55 corner | amod |
| 55 | corner | corner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 discover | obl |
| 56 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 waited | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | past | ladies = lady | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | seat | participle | ladies = lady not said here | the highest chairs | vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location | ||||
| 3 | find | could | ladies = lady | the highest chairs not said here | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chair=Topic | ||||
| 4 | wrap | participle | ladies = lady not said here | ladies's warmest garments | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in garment=Destination | ||||
| 5 | fly | past | the poor birds | with piles of cushions under ladies's feet; with numbed wings | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | numb | participle | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 7 | is | past | birds = bird | lucky property | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | discover | to-infinitive | birds = bird not said here | a open window | some forgotten corner | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent window=Topic | |||
| 9 | forget | participle | tree rules |
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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