The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 16, sentence 26
And the lion cub killed all the men that guarded the castle, and Iarlaid and his wife also, so that, in the end, Manus son of Oireal was crowned king of Lochlann.
Who acts: lion cub, men · What happens: kill, guard, crown · To what, where: men, castle, end
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 (lion cub, men), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 killed | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 cub | det |
| 3 | lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 cub | compound |
| 4 | cub | cub | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 killed | nsubj |
| 5 | killed | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 men | det:predet |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 men | det |
| 8 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 killed | obj |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 guarded | nsubj |
| 10 | guarded | guard | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 men | acl:relcl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 castle | det |
| 12 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 guarded | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 Iarlaid | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 Iarlaid | cc |
| 15 | Iarlaid | Iarlaid | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 killed | parataxis |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 wife | cc |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 wife | nmod:poss |
| 18 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 Iarlaid | conj |
| 19 | also | also | ADV | _ | 18 wife | advmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 Iarlaid | punct |
| 21 | so | so | SCONJ | _ | 22 that | case |
| 22 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 killed | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 end | punct |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 end | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 end | det |
| 26 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 crowned | nsubj:pass |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 son | punct |
| 28 | Manus | Manus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 son | compound |
| 29 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 end | appos |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 Oireal | case |
| 31 | Oireal | Oireal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 son | nmod |
| 32 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 crowned | aux:pass |
| 33 | crowned | crown | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 killed | parataxis |
| 34 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 crowned | xcomp |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 Lochlann | case |
| 36 | Lochlann | Lochlann | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 king | nmod |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 killed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kill | past | the lion cub | all men | so that | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Theme | |||
| 2 | guard | past | all men | the castle | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent castle=Beneficiary | ||||
| 3 | crown | past · passive | the end | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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