The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 14, sentence 124
So they alighted in some bushes in the heart of the rat city.
Who acts: eyes · What happens: alight · To what, where: bushes
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 (eyes), 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 alighted | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 alighted | nsubj |
| 3 | alighted | alight | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 bushes | case |
| 5 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 bushes | det |
| 6 | bushes | bush | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 alighted | obl |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 heart | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 heart | det |
| 9 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 alighted | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 city | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 city | det |
| 12 | rat | rat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 city | compound |
| 13 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 heart | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 alighted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | alight | participle | eyes = eye | some bushes | in the heart of the rat city | 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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