The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 15, sentence 67
The wife of Iarlaid grew white and angry as she listened, and thrusting her son aside, sought the council hall where Iarlaid was sitting.
Who acts: wife, Iarlaid · What happens: grow, listen, thrust, seek, sit · To what, where: son, council hall
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 (wife, Iarlaid), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 wife | det |
| 2 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 grew | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 Iarlaid | case |
| 4 | Iarlaid | Iarlaid | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 wife | nmod |
| 5 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 grew | xcomp |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 angry | cc |
| 8 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 white | conj |
| 9 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 11 listened | mark |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 listened | nsubj |
| 11 | listened | listen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 angry | advcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 thrusting | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 thrusting | cc |
| 14 | thrusting | thrust | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 grew | advcl |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 son | nmod:poss |
| 16 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 thrusting | obj |
| 17 | aside | aside | ADV | _ | 14 thrusting | advmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 sought | punct |
| 19 | sought | seek | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 grew | conj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 hall | det |
| 21 | council | council | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 hall | compound |
| 22 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 sought | obj |
| 23 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 26 sitting | advmod |
| 24 | Iarlaid | Iarlaid | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 sitting | nsubj |
| 25 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 sitting | aux |
| 26 | sitting | sit | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 hall | acl:relcl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 grew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | past | the wife of Iarlaid | white property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | listen | past | wife | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | thrust | gerund | the wife of Iarlaid not said here | wife's son | aside property | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Theme | |||
| 4 | seek | past | the wife of Iarlaid not said here | the council hall | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hall=Theme | ||||
| 5 | sit | past · progressive | Iarlaid | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=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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