The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 15, sentence 108
So Manus was left with no man, and sorrowful was he when he returned alone to Old Bergen.
Who acts: Manus · What happens: leave, be, return · To what, where: Manus, Old Bergen
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Manus), 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 left | advmod |
| 2 | Manus | Manus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 left | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 left | aux:pass |
| 4 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 man | case |
| 6 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 7 man | det |
| 7 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 left | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 sorrowful | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 sorrowful | cc |
| 10 | sorrowful | sorrowful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 left | conj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 he | cop |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 sorrowful | nsubj |
| 13 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 returned | advmod |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 returned | nsubj |
| 15 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 left | advcl |
| 16 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 15 returned | advmod |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 Bergen | case |
| 18 | Old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 Bergen | amod |
| 19 | Bergen | Bergen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 returned | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 left | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | past · passive | Manus | with no man | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: subject=Recipient with man=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | Manus | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | return | past | Manus | Old Bergen | alone property | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to bergen=Result |
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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