The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 19, sentence 99
After giving good advice to the two eldest, he turned to Jack.
Who acts: Jack · What happens: give, turn · To what, where: good advice, eldest, 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 (Jack), 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 | After | after | SCONJ | _ | 2 giving | mark |
| 2 | giving | give | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 turned | advcl |
| 3 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 advice | amod |
| 4 | advice | advice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 giving | obj |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 eldest | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 eldest | det |
| 7 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 eldest | nsubj |
| 8 | eldest | eld | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 2 giving | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 giving | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 turned | nsubj |
| 11 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 Jack | case |
| 13 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 turned | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | gerund | Jack not said here | good advice | the eldest | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent advice=Theme to eld=Recipient | |||
| 2 | turn | past | Jack | Jack | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to jack=Result |
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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