The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 19, sentence 36
Then the grain was cut and ground and ready for sale.
What happens: cut · To what, where: grain
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: 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 cut | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 grain | det |
| 3 | grain | grain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 cut | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 cut | aux:pass |
| 5 | cut | cut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 ground | cc |
| 7 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 cut | conj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 ready | cc |
| 9 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 cut | conj |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 sale | case |
| 11 | sale | sale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 ready | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 cut | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cut | past · passive | the grain | then | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
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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