The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 2, sentence 94
Instantly he found himself standing upon the upper earth; but, not knowing the spot, he said again to the Mirror:
Who acts: Gopani · What happens: find, stand, not know, say · To what, where: Gopani, upper earth, spot, Mirror · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Gopani), 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 | Instantly | instantly | ADV | _ | 3 found | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 found | nsubj |
| 3 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 3 found | obj |
| 5 | standing | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 found | xcomp |
| 6 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 9 earth | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 earth | det |
| 8 | upper | upper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 earth | amod |
| 9 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 standing | obl |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 knowing | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 knowing | cc |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 but | punct |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 knowing | advmod |
| 14 | knowing | know | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 found | advcl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 spot | det |
| 16 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 knowing | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 said | punct |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 said | nsubj |
| 19 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 found | parataxis |
| 20 | again | again | ADV | _ | 19 said | advmod |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 Mirror | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Mirror | det |
| 23 | Mirror | mirror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 said | obl |
| 24 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 3 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past | Gopani | Gopani | instantly property | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent himself=Attribute clause=Theme | |||
| 2 | stand | gerund | Gopani not said here | the upper earth | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon earth=Location | ||||
| 3 | not know | gerund | Gopani not said here | the spot | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer spot=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | Gopani | the Mirror | again | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to mirror=Recipient |
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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