The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 18, sentence 120
But every day he stole out to their hiding-place and had a delicious feast.
Who acts: row · What happens: steal out, have · To what, where: delicious feast
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (row), 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 | _ | 5 stole | cc |
| 2 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 day | det |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stole | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 stole | nsubj |
| 5 | stole | steal | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 5 stole | compound:prt |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 place | case |
| 8 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 place | nmod:poss |
| 9 | hiding | hiding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 place | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 hiding | punct |
| 11 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stole | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 had | cc |
| 13 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 stole | conj |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 feast | det |
| 15 | delicious | delicious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 feast | amod |
| 16 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 had | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 stole | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | steal out | past | row | day | to jackals's hiding place | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | have | past | row not said here | a delicious feast | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feast=Patient |
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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