The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 19, sentence 107
So, one fine morning, all three set out; Martin and Michael carried two great bags full of food, but Jack carried nothing.
Who acts: one fine morning, Martin, Jack · What happens: set out, carry · To what, where: two great bags, nothing
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 (one fine morning, Martin, Jack), 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 | _ | 9 set | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 So | punct |
| 3 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 morning | nummod |
| 4 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 morning | amod |
| 5 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 set | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 morning | punct |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 three | det |
| 8 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 morning | nmod |
| 9 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | out | out | ADP | _ | 9 set | compound:prt |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 carried | punct |
| 12 | Martin | Martin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 carried | nsubj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 Michael | cc |
| 14 | Michael | Michael | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Martin | conj |
| 15 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 set | parataxis |
| 16 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 bags | nummod |
| 17 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 bags | amod |
| 18 | bags | bag | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 carried | obj |
| 19 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 bags | amod |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 food | case |
| 21 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 full | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 carried | punct |
| 23 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 25 carried | cc |
| 24 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 carried | nsubj |
| 25 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 carried | conj |
| 26 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 25 carried | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set out | past | one fine morning all three | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | carry | past | Martin and Michael | two great bags | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bag=Theme | ||||
| 3 | carry | past | Jack | nothing | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=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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