The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 16, sentence 73
So he climbed softly on to the roof, and, peering, watched till the old woman's back was turned, when he quickly drew a handful of salt from his pocket and threw it into the pot.
Who acts: Pinkel · What happens: climb, peer, watch, turn, draw, throw · To what, where: roof, back, handful, pocket, pot
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 (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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 climbed | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 climbed | nsubj |
| 3 | climbed | climb | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | softly | softly | ADV | _ | 5 on | advmod |
| 5 | on | on | ADV | _ | 3 climbed | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 roof | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 roof | det |
| 8 | roof | roof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 climbed | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 peering | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 peering | cc |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 peering | punct |
| 12 | peering | peer | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 climbed | advcl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 watched | punct |
| 14 | watched | watch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 peering | parataxis |
| 15 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 22 turned | mark |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 woman | det |
| 17 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 woman | amod |
| 18 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 back | nmod:poss |
| 19 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 18 woman | case |
| 20 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 turned | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 turned | aux:pass |
| 22 | turned | turn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 watched | advcl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 drew | punct |
| 24 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 27 drew | advmod |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 drew | nsubj |
| 26 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 27 drew | advmod |
| 27 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 climbed | conj |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 handful | det |
| 29 | handful | handful | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 drew | obj |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 salt | case |
| 31 | salt | salt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 handful | nmod |
| 32 | from | from | ADP | _ | 34 pocket | case |
| 33 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 pocket | nmod:poss |
| 34 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 drew | obl | ||
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 threw | cc |
| 36 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 climbed | conj |
| 37 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 threw | obj |
| 38 | into | into | ADP | _ | 40 pot | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 pot | det |
| 40 | pot | pot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 threw | obl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 climbed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | climb | past | Pinkel | the roof | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to roof=Destination | ||||
| 2 | peer | gerund | Pinkel not said here | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | watch | participle | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | turn | past · passive | the old woman's back | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 5 | draw | past | Pinkel | a handful of salt | Pinkel's pocket | quickly property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent handful=Theme from pocket=Initial_Location | ||
| 6 | throw | past | Pinkel not said here | handful | into the pot result | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer it=Theme into pot=Result |
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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