The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 17, sentence 41
Thrusting a large bag inside his coat, he pushed off from the shore, taking care this time to reach the island in daylight.
Who acts: Pinkel · What happens: thrust, push off, take, reach · To what, where: large bag, coat, care, island, daylight
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 (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 | Thrusting | thrust | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 pushed | advcl |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 bag | det |
| 3 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 bag | amod |
| 4 | bag | bag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Thrusting | obj |
| 5 | inside | inside | ADP | _ | 7 coat | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 coat | nmod:poss |
| 7 | coat | coat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Thrusting | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Thrusting | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 pushed | nsubj |
| 10 | pushed | push | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | off | off | ADP | _ | 10 pushed | compound:prt |
| 12 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 shore | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 shore | det |
| 14 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 pushed | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 taking | punct |
| 16 | taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 pushed | advcl |
| 17 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 taking | obj |
| 18 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 time | det |
| 19 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 taking | obj |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 reach | mark |
| 21 | reach | reach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 time | acl |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 island | det |
| 23 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 reach | obj |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 daylight | case |
| 25 | daylight | daylight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 island | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 pushed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | thrust | gerund | Pinkel not said here | a large bag | Pinkel's coat | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bag=Theme | |||
| 2 | push off | past | Pinkel | from the shore | vn split-23.2 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient from shore=Co-Patient | ||||
| 3 | take | gerund | Pinkel not said here | care | time | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme | |||
| 4 | reach | to-infinitive | Pinkel not said here | the island | daylight | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent island=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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