The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 20, sentence 41
'A mile or two along that road,' answered Jack, 'you will find an old man carrying a table.
Who acts: mile, you, old man · What happens: answer, find, carry · To what, where: Jack, old man, table
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 (mile, you, old man), 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 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 mile | punct |
| 2 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 mile | det |
| 3 | mile | mile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 answered | nsubj |
| 4 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 5 two | cc |
| 5 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 mile | conj |
| 6 | along | along | ADP | _ | 8 road | case |
| 7 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 road | det |
| 8 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 two | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 mile | punct |
| 10 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 mile | punct |
| 11 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 answered | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 find | punct |
| 14 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 17 find | punct |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 find | nsubj |
| 16 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 find | aux |
| 17 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 answered | conj |
| 18 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 man | det |
| 19 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 man | amod |
| 20 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 find | obj |
| 21 | carrying | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 man | acl |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 table | det |
| 23 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 carrying | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | a mile | Jack | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent jack=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | find | future | you | a old man | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Topic | ||||
| 3 | carry | gerund | a old man not said here | a table | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent table=Theme |
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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