The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 15, sentence 47
Ah, how glad he was to see them again with the magic stone in their possession.
Who acts: falcon, scales · What happens: see, possess · To what, where: scales
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 (falcon, scales), 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 | Ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 4 glad | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 glad | punct |
| 3 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 glad | advmod |
| 4 | glad | glad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 see | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 see | aux |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 see | mark |
| 8 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 glad | acl:relcl |
| 9 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 see | obj |
| 10 | again | again | ADV | _ | 8 see | advmod |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 stone | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 stone | det |
| 13 | magic | magic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 stone | compound |
| 14 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 see | obl |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 possession | case |
| 16 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 possession | nmod:poss |
| 17 | possession | possession | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 stone | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 glad | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | falcon | scales = scale | again | with the magic stone in scales's possession | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus | ||
| 2 | possess | scales = scale | nom possession «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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