The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 20, sentence 40
The officer who rode at their head approached Jack, and politely inquired what he wished them to do.
Who acts: officer, head, Jack · What happens: ride, approach, inquire, wish, do · To what, where: head, Jack, swords
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 (officer, head, 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 | 2 officer | det |
| 2 | officer | officer | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 rode | nsubj |
| 4 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 officer | acl:relcl |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 head | case |
| 6 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 head | nmod:poss |
| 7 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 rode | obl |
| 8 | approached | approach | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 head | acl |
| 9 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 approached | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 inquired | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 inquired | cc |
| 12 | politely | politely | ADV | _ | 13 inquired | advmod |
| 13 | inquired | inquire | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 rode | conj |
| 14 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 13 inquired | obj |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 wished | nsubj |
| 16 | wished | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 what | acl:relcl |
| 17 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 wished | obj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 do | mark |
| 19 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 wished | xcomp |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 officer | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ride | past | the officer | swords's head | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | approach | participle | swords's head not said here | Jack | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jack=Theme | ||||
| 3 | inquire speech: other | participle | the officer not said here | politely property | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent what=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | wish | past | Jack | swords = sword | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | do not said to happen | to-infinitive | Jack not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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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