The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 14, sentence 34
And leaving his mother, he went into the country and took the stone from his turban.
Who acts: man · What happens: leave, go, take · To what, where: mother, country, stone, turban
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 (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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 2 leaving | cc |
| 2 | leaving | leave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 went | advcl |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 mother | nmod:poss |
| 4 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 leaving | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 leaving | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 went | nsubj |
| 7 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | into | into | ADP | _ | 10 country | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 country | det |
| 10 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 went | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 took | cc |
| 12 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 went | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 stone | det |
| 14 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 took | obj |
| 15 | from | from | ADP | _ | 17 turban | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 turban | nmod:poss |
| 17 | turban | turban | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 took | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | gerund | man not said here | man's mother | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mother=Theme | ||||
| 2 | go | past | man | the country | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into country=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | take | past | man not said here | the stone | man's turban | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent stone=Theme from turban=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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