The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 15, sentence 99
For a time Manus and his companions lived merrily, but at length Manus grew weary of the strange country, and they all took ship for the land of Lochlann.
Who acts: Manus, length, sons · What happens: live, grow, take · To what, where: ship
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 (Manus, length, sons), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 3 time | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 lived | obl |
| 4 | Manus | Manus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 lived | nsubj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 companions | cc |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 companions | nmod:poss |
| 7 | companions | companion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 Manus | conj |
| 8 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | merrily | merrily | ADV | _ | 8 lived | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 grew | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 grew | cc |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 length | case |
| 13 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 grew | nsubj |
| 14 | Manus | Manus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 length | appos |
| 15 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 lived | conj |
| 16 | weary | weary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 grew | xcomp |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 country | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 country | det |
| 19 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 country | amod |
| 20 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 weary | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 took | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 took | cc |
| 23 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 took | nsubj |
| 24 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 25 took | advmod |
| 25 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 lived | conj |
| 26 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 took | obj |
| 27 | for | for | ADP | _ | 29 land | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 land | det |
| 29 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 took | obl |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 Lochlann | case |
| 31 | Lochlann | Lochlann | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 land | nmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | Manus and Manus's companions | time | merrily property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | grow | past | length | weary property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | take | past | sons = son | ship | for the land of Lochlann | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent ship=Theme for land=Beneficiary |
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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