The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 16, sentence 45
And they all got in and rowed across in the direction of the light.
Who acts: brothers · What happens: get in, row · To what, where: direction
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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 got | cc |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 got | nsubj |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 got | nsubj |
| 4 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADV | _ | 4 got | advmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 rowed | cc |
| 7 | rowed | row | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 got | conj |
| 8 | across | across | ADP | _ | 11 direction | case |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 direction | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 direction | det |
| 11 | direction | direction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 rowed | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 light | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 light | det |
| 14 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 direction | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get in | past | brothers = brother | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | row | participle | brothers = brother not said here | the direction of the light | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent across direction=Trajectory |
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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