The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 17, sentence 3
But, on the other hand, the goat slept inside the hut, and would therefore have to be taken from under the very eyes of the old woman.
Who acts: goat · What happens: sleep, have, take · To what, where: other hand, eyes
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 (goat), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 slept | cc |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 But | punct |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 hand | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 hand | det |
| 5 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 hand | amod |
| 6 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 slept | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 hand | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 goat | det |
| 9 | goat | goat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 slept | nsubj |
| 10 | slept | sleep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 11 | inside | inside | ADP | _ | 13 hut | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 hut | det |
| 13 | hut | hut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 slept | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 have | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 have | cc |
| 16 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 have | aux |
| 17 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 18 have | advmod |
| 18 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 slept | conj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 taken | mark |
| 20 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 21 taken | aux:pass |
| 21 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 have | xcomp |
| 22 | from | from | ADP | _ | 26 eyes | case |
| 23 | under | under | ADP | _ | 26 eyes | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 eyes | det |
| 25 | very | very | ADV | _ | 26 eyes | advmod |
| 26 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 taken | obl |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 woman | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 woman | det |
| 29 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 woman | amod |
| 30 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 eyes | nmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 slept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sleep | participle | the goat | the other hand | inside the hut | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | have | would | the goat not said here | therefore property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | take | to-infinitive · passive | the goat not said here | the eyes of the old woman | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: from eye=Initial_Location |
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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