The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 16, sentence 41
Therefore they went from one place to another, living only on the fruit and nuts they could find in the woods, and getting hungrier every day.
Who acts: brothers · What happens: go, live, find, get · To what, where: one place, fruit, woods
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 (brothers), 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 | Therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 place | case |
| 5 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 place | nummod |
| 6 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 another | case |
| 8 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 place | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 living | punct |
| 10 | living | live | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 went | advcl |
| 11 | only | only | ADV | _ | 14 fruit | advmod |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 fruit | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 fruit | det |
| 14 | fruit | fruit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 living | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 nuts | cc |
| 16 | nuts | nut | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 fruit | conj |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 find | nsubj |
| 18 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 find | aux |
| 19 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 fruit | acl:relcl |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 woods | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 woods | det |
| 22 | woods | wood | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 find | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 getting | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 getting | cc |
| 25 | getting | get | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 went | advcl |
| 26 | hungrier | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 25 getting | xcomp |
| 27 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 28 day | det |
| 28 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 getting | obl:unmarked |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | brothers = brother | one place to another | therefore property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme from place=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | live | gerund | brothers = brother not said here | the fruit and nuts | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on fruit=Location | ||||
| 3 | find | could | brothers = brother | the fruit and nuts not said here | the woods | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fruit=Topic | |||
| 4 | get | gerund | brothers = brother not said here | day | hungry property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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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