The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 20, sentence 35
The old man bade him farewell, and set off down one path, while Jack chose another, and for a long time he was quite pleased with his new possession.
Who acts: old man bade, Jack · What happens: set off, choose, be, possess · To what, where: one path, another
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 (old man bade, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 bade | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 bade | amod |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bade | compound |
| 4 | bade | bade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 set | nsubj |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 bade | obj |
| 6 | farewell | farewell | ADV | _ | 4 bade | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 set | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 set | cc |
| 9 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | off | off | ADP | _ | 9 set | compound:prt |
| 11 | down | down | ADP | _ | 13 path | case |
| 12 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 path | nummod |
| 13 | path | path | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 set | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 chose | punct |
| 15 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 17 chose | mark |
| 16 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 chose | nsubj |
| 17 | chose | choose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 set | parataxis |
| 18 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 17 chose | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 pleased | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 pleased | cc |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 time | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 time | det |
| 23 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 time | amod |
| 24 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 pleased | obl |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 pleased | nsubj |
| 26 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 pleased | cop |
| 27 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 28 pleased | advmod |
| 28 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 chose | conj |
| 29 | with | with | ADP | _ | 32 possession | case |
| 30 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 possession | nmod:poss |
| 31 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 possession | amod |
| 32 | possession | possession | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 pleased | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set off | infinitive | the old man bade | one path | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme down path=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | choose | past | Jack | another | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent another=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | past | Jack | time | with Jack's new possession; pleased property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | possess | Jack | nom possession «act transitive»: 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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