The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 16, sentence 7
And Manus wound it round him and passed on into the forest.
Who acts: Manus · What happens: woun, pass on · To what, where: chain, forest
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 (Manus), 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 | _ | 3 wound | cc |
| 2 | Manus | Manus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 wound | nsubj |
| 3 | wound | woun | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 wound | obj |
| 5 | round | round | ADP | _ | 6 him | case |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 wound | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 passed | cc |
| 8 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 wound | conj |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 passed | compound:prt |
| 10 | into | into | ADP | _ | 12 forest | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 forest | det |
| 12 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 passed | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 wound | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | woun | past | Manus | chain | round creature | tree rules | |||
| 2 | pass on | participle | Manus not said here | the forest | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: 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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