The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 14, sentence 116
This was delightful news to the young man, who instantly bought some meat for the falcon, bidding him make a good meal.
Who acts: This, delightful news · What happens: be, buy, bid, make · To what, where: delightful news, meat, falcon, good meal
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 (This, delightful news), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 news | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 news | cop |
| 3 | delightful | delightful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 news | amod |
| 4 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 man | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 man | det |
| 7 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 man | amod |
| 8 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 news | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 bought | punct |
| 10 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 bought | nsubj |
| 11 | instantly | instantly | ADV | _ | 12 bought | advmod |
| 12 | bought | buy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 news | parataxis |
| 13 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 14 meat | det |
| 14 | meat | meat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 bought | obj |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 falcon | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 falcon | det |
| 17 | falcon | falcon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 bought | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 bidding | punct |
| 19 | bidding | bid | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 bought | advcl |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 bidding | obj |
| 21 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 bidding | xcomp |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 meal | det |
| 23 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 meal | amod |
| 24 | meal | meal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 make | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 news | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | This | delightful news | to the young man | tree rules | |||
| 2 | buy | past | delightful news | some meat | for the falcon; instantly property | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent meat=Theme for falcon=Beneficiary | |||
| 3 | bid | gerund | delightful news not said here | falcon | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | make | infinitive | delightful news not said here | a good meal | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset meal=Product |
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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