The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 2, sentence 43
One day, as he was out hunting, he came upon a strange sight.
Who acts: Senna · What happens: hunt, come · To what, where: strange sight
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 (Senna), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 hunting | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 was | punct |
| 4 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 6 was | mark |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 was | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 hunting | aux |
| 7 | out | out | ADP | _ | 6 was | compound:prt |
| 8 | hunting | hunt | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 came | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 came | nsubj |
| 11 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 hunting | advcl |
| 12 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 15 sight | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 sight | det |
| 14 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 sight | amod |
| 15 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 came | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 hunting | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hunt | past · progressive | day | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | come | past | Senna | a strange sight | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon sight=Location |
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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