The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 16, sentence 56
And at last the witch let him go, and he followed his brothers to the boat.
Who acts: you, Pinkel · What happens: let, go, follow · To what, where: Pinkel, brothers, boat
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 (you, Pinkel), 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 | _ | 6 let | cc |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 3 last | case |
| 3 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 let | advcl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 witch | det |
| 5 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 last | nsubj |
| 6 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 let | obj |
| 8 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 let | xcomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 followed | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 followed | cc |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 followed | nsubj |
| 12 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 let | parataxis |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 14 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 followed | obj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 boat | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 boat | det |
| 17 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 followed | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | imperative | you not said here | Pinkel | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go | infinitive | Pinkel not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | follow | past | Pinkel | Pinkel's brothers | the boat | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent brother=Theme to boat=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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