The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 19, sentence 127
And, without another word, took the path to the castle, closely followed by Jack, and after a moment by Martin likewise.
Who acts: word · What happens: take, follow · To what, where: path, castle
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 (word), 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 | _ | 7 took | cc |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 word | punct |
| 3 | without | without | ADP | _ | 5 word | case |
| 4 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 5 word | det |
| 5 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 took | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 word | punct |
| 7 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 path | det |
| 9 | path | path | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 took | obj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 castle | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 castle | det |
| 12 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 took | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 followed | punct |
| 14 | closely | closely | ADV | _ | 15 followed | advmod |
| 15 | followed | follow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 took | conj |
| 16 | by | by | ADP | _ | 17 Jack | case |
| 17 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 followed | obl:agent |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 likewise | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 likewise | cc |
| 20 | after | after | ADP | _ | 22 moment | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 moment | det |
| 22 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 likewise | obl |
| 23 | by | by | ADP | _ | 24 Martin | case |
| 24 | Martin | Martin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 moment | nmod |
| 25 | likewise | likewise | ADV | _ | 7 took | advmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | another word | the path | the castle | likewise property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent path=Theme to castle=Destination | ||
| 2 | follow | participle | another word not said here | closely property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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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