The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 18, sentence 34
And he stood a little way back, so that he might the better examine the animal.
Who acts: cave · What happens: stand, examine · To what, where: little way, animal
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 (cave), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 stood | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 stood | nsubj |
| 3 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 way | det |
| 5 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 way | amod |
| 6 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stood | obj |
| 7 | back | back | ADV | _ | 3 stood | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 examine | punct |
| 9 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 15 examine | mark |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 so | fixed |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 examine | nsubj |
| 12 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 better | aux |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 better | det |
| 14 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 11 he | conj |
| 15 | examine | examine | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 stood | conj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 animal | det |
| 17 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 examine | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | cave | a little way | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer way=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | examine | infinitive | cave | the animal | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent animal=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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