The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 16, sentence 11
But the cub rolled itself up in the cloth; so Manus picked them both up, and carried them with him to Old Bergen.
Who acts: cub, Manus · What happens: roll up, pick up, carry · To what, where: cub, cloth, ways, Old Bergen
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 (cub, Manus), 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 | _ | 4 rolled | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 cub | det |
| 3 | cub | cub | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 rolled | nsubj |
| 4 | rolled | roll | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | itself | itself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 4 rolled | obj |
| 6 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 rolled | compound:prt |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 cloth | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 cloth | det |
| 9 | cloth | cloth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 rolled | obl |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 picked | punct |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 picked | advmod |
| 12 | Manus | Manus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 picked | nsubj |
| 13 | picked | pick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 rolled | parataxis |
| 14 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 picked | obj |
| 15 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 picked | obj |
| 16 | up | up | ADP | _ | 13 picked | compound:prt |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 carried | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 carried | cc |
| 19 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 picked | conj |
| 20 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 carried | obj |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 him | case |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 carried | obl |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 Bergen | case |
| 24 | Old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 Bergen | amod |
| 25 | Bergen | Bergen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 carried | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 rolled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | roll up | past | the cub | cub | the cloth | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent itself=Theme in cloth=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | pick up | past | Manus | ways = way | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | carry | past | Manus not said here | ways = way | Old Bergen | with Manus | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme to bergen=Destination |
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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