The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 19, sentence 102
So saying the old man sank back on his pillows and died.
Who acts: old man · What happens: say, sink back, die · To what, where: pillows · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old man), 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 | _ | 2 saying | advmod |
| 2 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 sank | advcl |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 man | det |
| 4 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 man | amod |
| 5 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sank | nsubj |
| 6 | sank | sink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | back | back | ADV | _ | 6 sank | advmod |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 pillows | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 pillows | nmod:poss |
| 10 | pillows | pillow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 sank | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 died | cc |
| 12 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 sank | conj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 sank | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | gerund | the old man not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | sink back | past | the old man | Jack's pillows | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | die | past | the old man not said here | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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