The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 19, sentence 98
A little while after, the father fell ill, and sent for his sons, who were out hunting, to bid him farewell.
Who acts: little while, sons · What happens: fall, send, hunt, bid · To what, where: Jack
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 (little while, sons), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 while | det |
| 2 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 while | amod |
| 3 | while | while | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 fell | nsubj |
| 4 | after | after | ADV | _ | 3 while | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 fell | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 father | det |
| 7 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 fell | nsubj |
| 8 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 fell | xcomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 sent | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 sent | cc |
| 12 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 fell | conj |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 sons | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 sons | nmod:poss |
| 15 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 sent | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 hunting | punct |
| 17 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 hunting | nsubj |
| 18 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 hunting | aux |
| 19 | out | out | ADP | _ | 18 were | compound:prt |
| 20 | hunting | hunt | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 sons | acl:relcl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 bid | punct |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 bid | mark |
| 23 | bid | bid | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 hunting | conj |
| 24 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 bid | obj |
| 25 | farewell | farewell | ADV | _ | 23 bid | advmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | past | a little while | ill property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | send | past | a little while not said here | for Jack's sons | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | hunt | past · progressive | Jack's sons | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | bid | to-infinitive | Jack's sons not said here | Jack | farewell property | tree rules |
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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