The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 17, sentence 2
This time it was easier for Pinkel to approach the island unseen, as there was no golden lantern to thrown its beams over the water.
Who acts: time, golden lantern, lantern · What happens: be, approach, throw, beam · To what, where: island, beams, water
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 (time, golden lantern, lantern), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 time | det |
| 2 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 easier | nsubj |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 easier | expl |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 easier | cop |
| 5 | easier | easy | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 Pinkel | case |
| 7 | Pinkel | Pinkel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 easier | obl |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 approach | mark |
| 9 | approach | approach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 easier | csubj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 island | det |
| 11 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 approach | obj |
| 12 | unseen | unseen | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 approach | xcomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 was | punct |
| 14 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 16 was | mark |
| 15 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 16 was | expl |
| 16 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 easier | conj |
| 17 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 19 lantern | det |
| 18 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 lantern | amod |
| 19 | lantern | lantern | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 was | nsubj |
| 20 | to | to | SCONJ | _ | 21 thrown | mark |
| 21 | thrown | throw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 lantern | acl |
| 22 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 beams | nmod:poss |
| 23 | beams | beam | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 thrown | obj |
| 24 | over | over | ADP | _ | 26 water | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 water | det |
| 26 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 thrown | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 easier | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | this time | for Pinkel; easy property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | approach | to-infinitive | the island | unseen property | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent island=Theme | ||||
| 3 | be | past | no golden lantern | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | throw | participle | no golden lantern not said here | lantern's beams | the water | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent beam=Theme over water=Destination | |||
| 5 | beam | lantern | nom beam «communication transitive»: poss=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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