The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 20, sentence 24
So, tucking the table under his arm, he started off for the forest, but he did not linger there long, and soon found himself in the fields on the other side.
Who acts: Jack · What happens: tuck, start off, not linger, find · To what, where: table, arm, Jack, fields
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 (Jack), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 11 started | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 So | punct |
| 3 | tucking | tuck | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 started | advcl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 table | det |
| 5 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 tucking | obj |
| 6 | under | under | ADP | _ | 8 arm | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 arm | nmod:poss |
| 8 | arm | arm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 tucking | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 tucking | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 started | nsubj |
| 11 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | off | off | ADP | _ | 11 started | compound:prt |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 forest | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 forest | det |
| 15 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 started | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 linger | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 linger | cc |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 linger | nsubj |
| 19 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 linger | aux |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 linger | advmod |
| 21 | linger | linger | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 started | advcl |
| 22 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 21 linger | advmod |
| 23 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 21 linger | advmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 found | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 found | cc |
| 26 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 27 found | advmod |
| 27 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 started | conj |
| 28 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 27 found | obj |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 fields | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 fields | det |
| 31 | fields | field | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 found | obl |
| 32 | on | on | ADP | _ | 35 side | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 side | det |
| 34 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 side | amod |
| 35 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 fields | nmod |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 started | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tuck | gerund | Jack not said here | the table | Jack's arm | vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent table=Theme under arm=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | start off | past | Jack | for the forest | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | not linger | past · do-support | Jack | there | long property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 4 | find | past | Jack not said here | Jack | the fields on the other side | soon property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=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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