The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 17, sentence 79
The witch, who was just entering the forest, turned round at that moment and saw the golden rays.
Who acts: witch · What happens: enter, turn round, see · To what, where: forest, golden rays
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 (witch), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 witch | det |
| 2 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 entering | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 entering | punct |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 entering | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 entering | aux |
| 6 | just | just | ADV | _ | 7 entering | advmod |
| 7 | entering | enter | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 forest | det |
| 9 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 entering | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 turned | punct |
| 11 | turned | turn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 entering | parataxis |
| 12 | round | round | ADV | _ | 11 turned | advmod |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 moment | case |
| 14 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 moment | det |
| 15 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 turned | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 saw | cc |
| 17 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 turned | conj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 rays | det |
| 19 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 rays | amod |
| 20 | rays | ray | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 saw | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 entering | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enter | past · progressive | the witch | the forest | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme forest=Destination | ||||
| 2 | turn round | participle | moment | round property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | see | past | the golden rays | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ray=Stimulus |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/17/79/