The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 16, sentence 46
As they drew near the island they saw that it came from a golden lantern hanging over the door of a hut, while sweet tinkling music proceeded from some bells attached to the golden horns of a goat which was feeding near the cottage.
Who acts: brothers, island, golden lantern, tinkling music, goat · What happens: draw, see, come, hang, proceed, attach · To what, where: island, golden lantern, door, bells, cottage · Speech: someone speaks here
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, island, golden lantern, tinkling music), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 3 drew | mark |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 drew | nsubj |
| 3 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 saw | advcl |
| 4 | near | near | ADP | _ | 6 island | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 island | det |
| 6 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 drew | obl |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 saw | nsubj |
| 8 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 came | mark |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 came | nsubj |
| 11 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 saw | ccomp |
| 12 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 lantern | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 lantern | det |
| 14 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 lantern | amod |
| 15 | lantern | lantern | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 came | obl |
| 16 | hanging | hang | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 lantern | acl |
| 17 | over | over | ADP | _ | 19 door | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 door | det |
| 19 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 hanging | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 hut | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 hut | det |
| 22 | hut | hut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 door | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 proceeded | punct |
| 24 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 28 proceeded | mark |
| 25 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 tinkling | amod |
| 26 | tinkling | tinkling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 music | compound |
| 27 | music | music | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 proceeded | nsubj |
| 28 | proceeded | proceed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 came | conj |
| 29 | from | from | ADP | _ | 31 bells | case |
| 30 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 31 bells | det |
| 31 | bells | bell | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 proceeded | obl |
| 32 | attached | attach | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 31 bells | acl |
| 33 | to | to | ADP | _ | 36 horns | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 horns | det |
| 35 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 horns | amod |
| 36 | horns | horn | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 attached | obl |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 goat | case |
| 38 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 39 goat | det |
| 39 | goat | goat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 horns | nmod |
| 40 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 42 feeding | nsubj |
| 41 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 42 feeding | aux |
| 42 | feeding | feed | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 39 goat | acl:relcl |
| 43 | near | near | ADP | _ | 45 cottage | case |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 cottage | det |
| 45 | cottage | cottage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 feeding | obl |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | draw | past | brothers = brother | the island | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | see | past | brothers = brother | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | come | past | island | a golden lantern | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from lantern=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | hang | gerund | a golden lantern not said here | the door of a hut | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over door=Location | ||||
| 5 | proceed | past | tinkling music | some bells | vn begin-55.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | attach | participle | some bells not said here | to the golden horns of a goat | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent to horn=Co-Patient | ||||
| 7 | feed | past · progressive | a goat | the cottage | vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent |
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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