The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 17, sentence 114
They certainly set off his paws wonderfully, and he stretched out his forepaws and looked at them with pride.
Who acts: shoes, panther · What happens: set off, stretch out, look · To what, where: paws, forepaws
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (shoes, panther), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 set | nsubj |
| 2 | certainly | certainly | ADV | _ | 3 set | advmod |
| 3 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | off | off | ADP | _ | 3 set | compound:prt |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 paws | nmod:poss |
| 6 | paws | paw | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 set | obj |
| 7 | wonderfully | wonderfully | ADV | _ | 3 set | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 stretched | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 stretched | cc |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 stretched | nsubj |
| 11 | stretched | stretch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 set | parataxis |
| 12 | out | out | ADP | _ | 11 stretched | compound:prt |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 forepaws | nmod:poss |
| 14 | forepaws | forepaw | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 stretched | obj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 looked | cc |
| 16 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 stretched | conj |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 them | case |
| 18 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 looked | obl |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 pride | case |
| 20 | pride | pride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 looked | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set off | past | shoes = shoe | panther's paws | certainly, wonderfully property | vn engender-27.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition paw=Patient | |||
| 2 | stretch out | past | panther | panther's forepaws | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent forepaw=Patient | ||||
| 3 | look | past | panther not said here | at shoes = shoe; with pride | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at they=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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