The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 16, sentence 10
At that the lions stopped, and bowing their great heads, kissed the back of his wrist and went their ways.
Who acts: lions · What happens: stop, bow, kiss, go · To what, where: that, great heads, back, ways
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lions), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 that | case |
| 2 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 stopped | obl |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 lions | det |
| 4 | lions | lion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 stopped | nsubj |
| 5 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 bowing | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 bowing | cc |
| 8 | bowing | bow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 stopped | xcomp |
| 9 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 heads | nmod:poss |
| 10 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 heads | amod |
| 11 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 bowing | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 kissed | punct |
| 13 | kissed | kiss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 stopped | parataxis |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 back | det |
| 15 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 kissed | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 wrist | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 wrist | nmod:poss |
| 18 | wrist | wrist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 back | nmod |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 went | cc |
| 20 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 kissed | conj |
| 21 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 ways | nmod:poss |
| 22 | ways | way | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 went | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 stopped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stop | past | the lions | that | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | bow | gerund | the lions not said here | lions's great heads | vn curtsey-40.3.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Topic | ||||
| 3 | kiss | past | the back of creature's wrist | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent back=Co-Agent | |||||
| 4 | go | past | lions's ways | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location way=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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