The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 20, sentence 44
In ten minutes they had returned, bearing the table with them.
Who acts: table · What happens: return, bear · To what, where: 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 (table), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 minutes | case |
| 2 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 minutes | nummod |
| 3 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 returned | obl |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 returned | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 returned | aux |
| 6 | returned | return | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 bearing | punct |
| 8 | bearing | bear | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 returned | advcl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 table | det |
| 10 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 bearing | obj |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 them | case |
| 12 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 bearing | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 returned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | past · perfect | table | minute | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | bear | gerund | table not said here | the table | with table | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent table=Patient |
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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