The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 15, sentence 76
But in the end, when the wife of Oireal fell sick, Manus fled from the tower which was his prison, and stole back to his on home.
Who acts: wife, Manus, tower · What happens: fall, flee, be, steal back · To what, where: end, prison
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, Manus, tower), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 fled | cc |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 end | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 end | det |
| 4 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 fled | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 fell | punct |
| 6 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 fell | advmod |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 wife | det |
| 8 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 fell | nsubj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Oireal | case |
| 10 | Oireal | Oireal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 wife | nmod |
| 11 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 end | conj |
| 12 | sick | sick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 fell | xcomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 end | punct |
| 14 | Manus | Manus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 fled | nsubj |
| 15 | fled | flee | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 18 tower | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 tower | det |
| 18 | tower | tower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 fled | obl |
| 19 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 prison | nsubj |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 prison | cop |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 prison | nmod:poss |
| 22 | prison | prison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 tower | acl:relcl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 stole | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 stole | cc |
| 25 | stole | steal | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 fled | conj |
| 26 | back | back | ADV | _ | 25 stole | advmod |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 home | case |
| 28 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 home | nmod:poss |
| 29 | on | on | ADP | _ | 30 home | case |
| 30 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 stole | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 fled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | past | the wife of Oireal | sick property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | flee | past | Manus | in the end | from the tower | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from tower=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | is a | past | the tower | Manus's prison | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | steal back | past | Manus not said here | to Manus's home | vn appear-48.1.1 «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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