The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 15, sentence 24
Half drowned, and more than half choked, the two faithful servants scrambled back to land again.
Who acts: Half, two faithful servants · What happens: drown, choke, scramble back, land
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 (Half, two faithful servants), 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 | Half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 2 drowned | nsubj |
| 2 | drowned | drown | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 choked | punct |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 choked | cc |
| 5 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV | 7 half | advmod |
| 6 | than | than | ADP | _ | 5 more | fixed |
| 7 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 8 choked | nsubj |
| 8 | choked | choke | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 drowned | parataxis |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 scrambled | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 servants | det |
| 11 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 servants | nummod |
| 12 | faithful | faithful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 servants | amod |
| 13 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 scrambled | nsubj |
| 14 | scrambled | scramble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 choked | conj |
| 15 | back | back | ADV | _ | 14 scrambled | advmod |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 land | mark |
| 17 | land | land | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 scrambled | xcomp |
| 18 | again | again | ADV | _ | 17 land | advmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 drowned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drown | past | Half | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | choke | participle | half | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | scramble back | past | the two faithful servants | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | land | to-infinitive | the two faithful servants not said here | again | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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