The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 17, sentence 77
Directly the last sound of the clogs had ceased, Pinkel jumped up and took down the cloak, and rowed off as fast as he could.
Who acts: Pinkel · What happens: cease, jump up, take down, row off · To what, where: last sound, cloak
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 | Directly | directly | ADV | _ | 9 ceased | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 sound | det |
| 3 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 sound | amod |
| 4 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 ceased | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 clogs | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 clogs | det |
| 7 | clogs | clog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 sound | nmod |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 ceased | aux |
| 9 | ceased | cease | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 jumped | advcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 ceased | punct |
| 11 | Pinkel | Pinkel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 jumped | nsubj |
| 12 | jumped | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | up | up | ADP | _ | 12 jumped | compound:prt |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 took | cc |
| 15 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 jumped | conj |
| 16 | down | down | ADP | _ | 15 took | compound:prt |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 cloak | det |
| 18 | cloak | cloak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 took | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 rowed | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 rowed | cc |
| 21 | rowed | row | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 jumped | conj |
| 22 | off | off | ADP | _ | 21 rowed | compound:prt |
| 23 | as | as | ADV | _ | 24 fast | advmod |
| 24 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 21 rowed | advmod |
| 25 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 27 could | mark |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 could | nsubj |
| 27 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 fast | advcl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 jumped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cease | past · perfect · passive | the last sound of the clogs | directly property | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: subject=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | jump up | past | Pinkel | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | take down | past | Pinkel not said here | the cloak | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cloak=Theme | ||||
| 4 | row off | participle | Pinkel not said here | fast property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=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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