The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 14, sentence 46
So the husband went off to hunt, with the falcon on his wrist, and the greyhound and the cat behind him--for the palace was so warm that even the cat did not mind living in it.
Who acts: husband, greyhound, cat · What happens: go off, hunt, be, not mind, live
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 (husband, greyhound, cat), 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 | _ | 4 went | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 husband | det |
| 3 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | off | off | ADP | _ | 4 went | compound:prt |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 hunt | mark |
| 7 | hunt | hunt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 went | xcomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 falcon | punct |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 falcon | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 falcon | det |
| 11 | falcon | falcon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 hunt | obl |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 wrist | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 wrist | nmod:poss |
| 14 | wrist | wrist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 falcon | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 warm | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 warm | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 greyhound | det |
| 18 | greyhound | greyhound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 warm | nsubj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 cat | cc |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 cat | det |
| 21 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 greyhound | conj |
| 22 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 23 him | case |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 cat | nmod |
| 24 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 27 palace | punct |
| 25 | for | for | ADP | _ | 27 palace | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 palace | det |
| 27 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 greyhound | conj |
| 28 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 warm | cop |
| 29 | so | so | ADV | _ | 30 warm | advmod |
| 30 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 went | parataxis |
| 31 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 37 mind | mark |
| 32 | even | even | ADV | _ | 34 cat | advmod |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 cat | det |
| 34 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 mind | nsubj |
| 35 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 mind | aux |
| 36 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 37 mind | advmod |
| 37 | mind | mind | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 warm | advcl |
| 38 | living | live | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 37 mind | xcomp |
| 39 | in | in | ADP | _ | 40 it | case |
| 40 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 living | obl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go off | past | the husband | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | hunt | to-infinitive | the husband not said here | with the falcon on husband's wrist | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | is | past | the greyhound and the cat behind husband and the palace | warm property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | not mind | past · do-support | the cat | vn care-88.1 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | live | gerund | the cat not said here | in cat | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in it=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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