The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 2, sentence 64
And as they passed, the people who were singing at their work in the fields, abandoned their labours and saluted Insato with delight, bringing also palm wine and green cocoanuts for refreshment, as to one returned from a long journey.
Who acts: men, people · What happens: pass, sing, abandon, salute, bring, return · To what, where: work, labours, Insato, palm wine, long journey
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 (men, people), 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 | _ | 18 abandoned | cc |
| 2 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 4 passed | mark |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 passed | nsubj |
| 4 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 abandoned | advcl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 singing | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 people | det |
| 7 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 singing | nsubj |
| 8 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 singing | nsubj |
| 9 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 singing | aux |
| 10 | singing | sing | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 passed | advcl |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 work | case |
| 12 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 work | nmod:poss |
| 13 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 singing | obl |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 fields | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 fields | det |
| 16 | fields | field | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 singing | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 passed | punct |
| 18 | abandoned | abandon | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 labours | nmod:poss |
| 20 | labours | labour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 abandoned | obj |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 saluted | cc |
| 22 | saluted | salute | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 abandoned | conj |
| 23 | Insato | Insato | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 saluted | obj |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 delight | case |
| 25 | delight | delight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 saluted | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 bringing | punct |
| 27 | bringing | bring | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 abandoned | advcl |
| 28 | also | also | ADV | _ | 30 wine | advmod |
| 29 | palm | palm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 wine | compound |
| 30 | wine | wine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 bringing | obj |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 cocoanuts | cc |
| 32 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 cocoanuts | amod |
| 33 | cocoanuts | cocoanut | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 wine | conj |
| 34 | for | for | ADP | _ | 35 refreshment | case |
| 35 | refreshment | refreshment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 bringing | obl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 one | punct |
| 37 | as | as | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 39 one | case |
| 38 | to | to | ADP | _ | 37 as | fixed |
| 39 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 abandoned | obl |
| 40 | returned | return | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 39 one | acl |
| 41 | from | from | ADP | _ | 44 journey | case |
| 42 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 44 journey | det |
| 43 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 journey | amod |
| 44 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 returned | obl |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 abandoned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | past | men = man | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | sing speech: express | past · progressive | the people | men's work | in the fields | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at work=Location | |||
| 3 | abandon | past | men's labours | as one | vn leave-51.2 «NP V NP.initial_location»: agent=Theme labour=Source | ||||
| 4 | salute | past | Insato | with delight | vn curtsey-40.3.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent insato=Topic | ||||
| 5 | bring | gerund | palm wine and green cocoanuts | for refreshment | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent wine=Theme | ||||
| 6 | return | participle | a long journey | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from journey=Initial_Location | |||||
| 7 | work | men = man | nom work «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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