The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 19, sentence 44
The sheep looked at the two heaps in silence- -one so large, the other so small; and then she answered:
Who acts: sheep, silence · What happens: look, answer
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 (sheep, silence), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 sheep | det |
| 2 | sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 looked | nsubj |
| 3 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 heaps | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 heaps | det |
| 6 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 heaps | nummod |
| 7 | heaps | heap | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 looked | nsubj |
| 8 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 14 large | mark |
| 9 | silence | silence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 large | nsubj |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 silence | punct |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 one | punct |
| 12 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 large | nsubj |
| 13 | so | so | ADV | _ | 14 large | advmod |
| 14 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 heaps | advcl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 other | punct |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 other | det |
| 17 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 large | obl |
| 18 | so | so | ADV | _ | 19 small | advmod |
| 19 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 large | advcl |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 answered | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 answered | cc |
| 22 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 24 answered | advmod |
| 23 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 answered | nsubj |
| 24 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 looked | conj |
| 25 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 3 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | the sheep | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | silence | then | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/19/44/