The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 19, sentence 136
However, they soon recovered from their surprise, and quickly emptied their bags of silver, and filled them with gold instead.
Who acts: provisions · What happens: recover, empty, fill, surprise · To what, where: surprise, bags, provisions
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 (provisions), 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 | However | however | ADV | _ | 5 recovered | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 However | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 recovered | nsubj |
| 4 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 recovered | advmod |
| 5 | recovered | recover | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 surprise | case |
| 7 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 surprise | nmod:poss |
| 8 | surprise | surprise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 recovered | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 emptied | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 emptied | cc |
| 11 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 12 emptied | advmod |
| 12 | emptied | empty | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 recovered | conj |
| 13 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 bags | nmod:poss |
| 14 | bags | bag | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 emptied | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 silver | case |
| 16 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 bags | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 filled | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 filled | cc |
| 19 | filled | fill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 recovered | conj |
| 20 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 filled | obj |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 gold | case |
| 22 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 filled | obl |
| 23 | instead | instead | ADV | _ | 19 filled | advmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 recovered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | recover | past | provisions = provision | provisions's surprise | however, soon property | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from surprise=Source | |||
| 2 | empty | past | provisions = provision not said here | provisions's bags of silver | quickly property | vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent bag=Source | |||
| 3 | fill | past | provisions = provision not said here | provisions = provision | with gold; instead property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent they=Patient with gold=Instrument | |||
| 4 | surprise | provisions = provision | nom surprise «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |
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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