The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 2, sentence 44
An enormous python had caught an antelope and coiled itself around it; the antelope, striking out in despair with its horns, had pinned the python's neck to a tree, and so deeply had its horns sunk in the soft wood that neither creature could get away.
Who acts: horns, creature · What happens: catch, coil, strike out, pin, have, sink · To what, where: enormous python, antelope, python, despair, neck, horns
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 (horns, creature), 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 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 python | det |
| 2 | enormous | enormous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 python | amod |
| 3 | python | python | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 caught | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 caught | aux |
| 5 | caught | catch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 antelope | det |
| 7 | antelope | antelope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 caught | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 coiled | cc |
| 9 | coiled | coil | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 caught | conj |
| 10 | itself | itself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 9 coiled | obj |
| 11 | around | around | ADP | _ | 12 it | case |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 coiled | obl |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 antelope | punct |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 antelope | det |
| 15 | antelope | antelope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 coiled | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 striking | punct |
| 17 | striking | strike | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 coiled | advcl |
| 18 | out | out | ADP | _ | 17 striking | compound:prt |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 despair | case |
| 20 | despair | despair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 striking | obl |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 horns | case |
| 22 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 horns | nmod:poss |
| 23 | horns | horn | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 despair | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 pinned | punct |
| 25 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 pinned | aux |
| 26 | pinned | pin | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 caught | parataxis |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 python | det |
| 28 | python | python | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 neck | nmod:poss |
| 29 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 28 python | case |
| 30 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 pinned | obj |
| 31 | to | to | ADP | _ | 33 tree | case |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 tree | det |
| 33 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 pinned | obl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 had | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 had | cc |
| 36 | so | so | ADV | _ | 37 deeply | advmod |
| 37 | deeply | deeply | ADV | _ | 38 had | advmod |
| 38 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 caught | conj |
| 39 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 40 horns | nmod:poss |
| 40 | horns | horn | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 had | obj |
| 41 | sunk | sink | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 38 had | xcomp |
| 42 | in | in | ADP | _ | 45 wood | case |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 wood | det |
| 44 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 wood | amod |
| 45 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 sunk | obl |
| 46 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 50 get | obj |
| 47 | neither | neither | DET | PronType=Neg | 48 creature | det |
| 48 | creature | creature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 get | nsubj |
| 49 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 50 get | aux |
| 50 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 45 wood | acl:relcl |
| 51 | away | away | ADV | _ | 50 get | advmod |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 caught | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | catch | past · perfect · passive | a enormous python | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary antelope=Theme | |||||
| 2 | coil | past | antelope | python | the antelope obl | vn coil-9.6-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent itself=Theme around it=Destination | |||
| 3 | strike out | gerund | despair with python's horns | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in despair=Location | |||||
| 4 | pin | past · perfect | the python's neck | to a tree | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent neck=Patient to tree=Co-Patient | ||||
| 5 | have | past | python's horns | deeply property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | sink | participle | python's horns not said here | the soft wood | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 7 | get away | could | neither creature | the soft wood | away 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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