The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 2, sentence 18
And they pointed to what Makoma had thought were two tall mountain peaks. '
Who acts: wives · What happens: point, think, be · To what, where: Makoma, two tall mountain peaks
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wives), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 pointed | cc |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 pointed | nsubj |
| 3 | pointed | point | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 what | case |
| 5 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 peaks | obl |
| 6 | Makoma | Makoma | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 thought | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 thought | aux |
| 8 | thought | think | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 what | acl:relcl |
| 9 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 peaks | cop |
| 10 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 peaks | nummod |
| 11 | tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 peaks | amod |
| 12 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 peaks | compound |
| 13 | peaks | peak | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 pointed | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 pointed | punct |
| 15 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 pointed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | point | past | wives = wife | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past · perfect · passive | Makoma | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is a | past | two tall mountain peaks | 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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