The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 18, sentence 74
And throwing the cloak over his back he darted away across the plain, and was seen no more by his friend the hyena.
Who acts: luck, friend · What happens: throw, dart away, see · To what, where: cloak, back, plain, hyena
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 (luck, friend), 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 | _ | 9 darted | cc |
| 2 | throwing | throw | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 darted | csubj |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 cloak | det |
| 4 | cloak | cloak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 throwing | obj |
| 5 | over | over | ADP | _ | 7 back | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 back | nmod:poss |
| 7 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 throwing | obl |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 darted | nsubj |
| 9 | darted | dart | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | away | away | ADV | _ | 9 darted | advmod |
| 11 | across | across | ADP | _ | 13 plain | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 plain | det |
| 13 | plain | plain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 darted | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 seen | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 seen | cc |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 seen | aux:pass |
| 17 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 darted | advcl |
| 18 | no | no | ADV | _ | 19 more | advmod |
| 19 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 17 seen | advmod |
| 20 | by | by | ADP | _ | 22 friend | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 friend | nmod:poss |
| 22 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 seen | obl |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 hyena | det |
| 24 | hyena | hyena | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 seen | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 darted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | throw | gerund | the cloak | luck's back | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent cloak=Theme over back=Destination | ||||
| 2 | dart away | past | luck | the plain | away property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme across plain=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | see | past · passive | luck's friend | the hyena | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hyena=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.
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