The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 18, sentence 51
So he went up to the place where the greyhound had been tethered and untied the rope.
Who acts: hedgehog · What happens: go up, tether, untie · To what, where: greyhound, rope
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 (hedgehog), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 went | compound:prt |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 place | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 place | det |
| 7 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 8 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 13 tethered | advmod |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 greyhound | det |
| 10 | greyhound | greyhound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 tethered | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 tethered | aux |
| 12 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 tethered | aux:pass |
| 13 | tethered | tether | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 place | acl:relcl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 untied | cc |
| 15 | untied | untie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 rope | det |
| 17 | rope | rope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 untied | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go up | past | hedgehog | to the place | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | tether | past · perfect · passive | the greyhound | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 3 | untie | past | hedgehog not said here | the rope | vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rope=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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