The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 17, sentence 42
Having made his boat fast to a tree, he walked up to the hut, hanging his head, and putting on a face that was both sorrowful and ashamed.
Who acts: Pinkel, face · What happens: have, make, walk up, hang, put, be · To what, where: made boat, hut, head, face
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, face), 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 | Having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 walked | advcl |
| 2 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 boat | amod |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 boat | nmod:poss |
| 4 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Having | obj |
| 5 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 1 Having | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 tree | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 tree | det |
| 8 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fast | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Having | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 walked | nsubj |
| 11 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | up | up | ADP | _ | 11 walked | compound:prt |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 hut | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 hut | det |
| 15 | hut | hut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 walked | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 hanging | punct |
| 17 | hanging | hang | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 walked | advcl |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 head | nmod:poss |
| 19 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 hanging | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 putting | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 putting | cc |
| 22 | putting | put | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 hanging | conj |
| 23 | on | on | ADP | _ | 25 face | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 face | det |
| 25 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 putting | obl |
| 26 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 29 sorrowful | nsubj |
| 27 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 sorrowful | cop |
| 28 | both | both | CCONJ | _ | 29 sorrowful | cc:preconj |
| 29 | sorrowful | sorrowful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 face | acl:relcl |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 ashamed | cc |
| 31 | ashamed | ashamed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 sorrowful | conj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 walked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | gerund | Pinkel not said here | Pinkel's made boat | fast property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boat=Patient | |||
| 2 | make | participle | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||||
| 3 | walk up | past | Pinkel | the hut | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to hut=Destination | ||||
| 4 | hang | gerund | Pinkel not said here | Pinkel's head | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient | ||||
| 5 | put | gerund | Pinkel not said here | a face | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on face=Destination | ||||
| 6 | is | past | a face | sorrowful property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | be | a face not said here | tree rules |
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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