The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 14, sentence 9
Mounting the camel, he whistled the falcon to his wrist, and, followed by his greyhound and his cat, he started homewards.
Who acts: camel · What happens: mount, whistle, follow, start · To what, where: camel, falcon, wrist, homewards
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 (camel), 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 | Mounting | mount | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 whistled | advcl |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 camel | det |
| 3 | camel | camel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Mounting | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Mounting | punct |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 whistled | nsubj |
| 6 | whistled | whistle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 falcon | det |
| 8 | falcon | falcon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 whistled | obj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 wrist | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 wrist | nmod:poss |
| 11 | wrist | wrist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 whistled | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 followed | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 followed | cc |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 followed | punct |
| 15 | followed | follow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 whistled | conj |
| 16 | by | by | ADP | _ | 18 greyhound | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 greyhound | nmod:poss |
| 18 | greyhound | greyhound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 followed | obl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 cat | cc |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 cat | nmod:poss |
| 21 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 greyhound | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 started | punct |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 started | nsubj |
| 24 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 whistled | conj |
| 25 | homewards | homeward | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 started | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 whistled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mount | gerund | camel not said here | the camel | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent camel=Patient | ||||
| 2 | whistle | past | camel | the falcon | camel's wrist | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent falcon=Topic to wrist=Recipient | |||
| 3 | follow | participle | camel not said here | by camel's greyhound and camel's cat | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by greyhound=Location | ||||
| 4 | start | past | camel | homewards | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent homeward=Eventuality |
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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