The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 15, sentence 98
A year passed by, and found them still in that wild land, hunting the reindeer, and digging pits for the mountain sheep to fall into.
What happens: pass by, find, hunt, dig, fall · To what, where: sons, wild land, reindeer, pits
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: 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 year | det |
| 2 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 passed | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 3 passed | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 found | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 found | cc |
| 7 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 passed | parataxis |
| 8 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 found | obj |
| 9 | still | still | ADV | _ | 13 land | advmod |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 land | case |
| 11 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 land | det |
| 12 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 land | amod |
| 13 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 found | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 hunting | punct |
| 15 | hunting | hunt | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 found | advcl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 reindeer | det |
| 17 | reindeer | reindeer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 hunting | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 digging | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 digging | cc |
| 20 | digging | dig | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 hunting | conj |
| 21 | pits | pit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 digging | obj |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 sheep | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 sheep | det |
| 24 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 sheep | compound |
| 25 | sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 digging | obl |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 fall | mark |
| 27 | fall | fall | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 digging | advcl |
| 28 | into | into | ADP | _ | 27 fall | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass by | participle | year | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | find | past | sons = son | that wild land | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Topic | ||||
| 3 | hunt | gerund | the reindeer | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reindeer=Theme | |||||
| 4 | dig | gerund | pits | for the mountain sheep | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent pit=Result for sheep=Beneficiary | ||||
| 5 | fall | to-infinitive | vn occur-48.3 «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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