The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 20, sentence 103
Thither he hastened that he might renew his power once more, and in that black and slimy spot he found the treasures indeed.
Who acts: army · What happens: hasten, renew, find · To what, where: power, treasures, black spot
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (army), 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 | Thither | thither | ADV | _ | 3 hastened | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 hastened | nsubj |
| 3 | hastened | hasten | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 renew | mark |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 renew | nsubj |
| 6 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 renew | aux |
| 7 | renew | renew | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 hastened | advcl |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 power | nmod:poss |
| 9 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 renew | obj |
| 10 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 11 more | advmod |
| 11 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 7 renew | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 found | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 found | cc |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 spot | case |
| 15 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 spot | det |
| 16 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 spot | amod |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 slimy | cc |
| 18 | slimy | slimy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 black | conj |
| 19 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 found | obl |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 found | nsubj |
| 21 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 hastened | conj |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 treasures | det |
| 23 | treasures | treasure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 found | obj |
| 24 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 21 found | advmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 hastened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hasten | past | army | thither property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | renew | might | army | army's power | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent power=Patient | ||||
| 3 | find | past | army | the treasures | that black spot | indeed property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent treasure=Topic |
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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