The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 16, sentence 80
So the girl took her pail in one hand and the golden lantern in the other, and hastened away to the well, followed by Pinkel, who took care to keep out of the way of the rays.
Who acts: girl, Pinkel · What happens: take, hasten, follow, keep out · To what, where: pail, one hand, care, way
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 (girl, 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 | _ | 4 took | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 girl | det |
| 3 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 took | nsubj |
| 4 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 pail | nmod:poss |
| 6 | pail | pail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 took | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 hand | case |
| 8 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 hand | nummod |
| 9 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 took | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 lantern | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 lantern | det |
| 12 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 lantern | amod |
| 13 | lantern | lantern | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 hand | conj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 other | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 other | det |
| 16 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 lantern | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 hastened | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 hastened | cc |
| 19 | hastened | hasten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 took | conj |
| 20 | away | away | ADV | _ | 19 hastened | advmod |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 well | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 well | det |
| 23 | well | well | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 away | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 followed | punct |
| 25 | followed | follow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 hastened | parataxis |
| 26 | by | by | ADP | _ | 27 Pinkel | case |
| 27 | Pinkel | Pinkel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 followed | obl:agent |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 took | punct |
| 29 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 30 took | nsubj |
| 30 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 Pinkel | acl:relcl |
| 31 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 took | obj |
| 32 | to | to | PART | _ | 33 keep | mark |
| 33 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 took | advcl |
| 34 | out | out | ADP | _ | 37 way | case |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 way | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 way | det |
| 37 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 keep | obl |
| 38 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 rays | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 rays | det |
| 40 | rays | ray | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 way | nmod |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | the girl | girl's pail | one hand and the golden lantern in the other | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent pail=Value in hand=Location | |||
| 2 | hasten | participle | the girl not said here | away property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | follow | participle | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | take | past | Pinkel | care | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme | ||||
| 5 | keep out | to-infinitive | Pinkel not said here | the way of the rays | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Theme |
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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