The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 16, sentence 12
Another year went by, and then he took the lion cub and set forth to the land of Lochlann.
Who acts: Manus · What happens: go by, take, set · To what, where: lion cub
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 (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 | Another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 year | det |
| 2 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 3 went | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 took | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 took | cc |
| 7 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 took | advmod |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 took | nsubj |
| 9 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | parataxis |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 cub | det |
| 11 | lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 cub | compound |
| 12 | cub | cub | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 took | obj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 set | cc |
| 14 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 took | conj |
| 15 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 14 set | advmod |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 land | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 land | det |
| 18 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 set | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 Lochlann | case |
| 20 | Lochlann | Lochlann | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 land | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go by | past | year | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | take | past | Manus | the lion cub | then | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cub=Theme | |||
| 3 | set | infinitive | Manus not said here | to the land of Lochlann; forth property | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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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