The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 15, sentence 65
Long they played, and swiftly did the ball pass from one to another, when Manus drove the ball at his cousin, the son of Iarlaid.
Who acts: princes, ball, Manus · What happens: play, do, pass, drive · To what, where: ball, cousin
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 (princes, ball, 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 | Long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 played | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 played | nsubj |
| 3 | played | play | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 did | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 did | cc |
| 6 | swiftly | swiftly | ADV | _ | 7 did | advmod |
| 7 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 played | conj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 ball | det |
| 9 | ball | ball | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 pass | nsubj |
| 10 | pass | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 did | parataxis |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 one | case |
| 12 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 pass | obl |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 another | case |
| 14 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 12 one | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 drove | punct |
| 16 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 18 drove | advmod |
| 17 | Manus | Manus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 drove | nsubj |
| 18 | drove | drive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 played | conj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 ball | det |
| 20 | ball | ball | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 drove | obj |
| 21 | at | at | ADP | _ | 23 cousin | case |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 cousin | nmod:poss |
| 23 | cousin | cousin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 drove | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 son | punct |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 son | det |
| 26 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 cousin | appos |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 Iarlaid | case |
| 28 | Iarlaid | Iarlaid | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 son | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 played | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | play | past | princes = prince | long property | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | do | past | princes = prince not said here | swiftly property | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | pass | present | the ball | from one to another | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from one=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | drive | past | Manus | the ball | Manus's cousin | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent ball=Theme at cousin=Destination |
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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