The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 20, sentence 47
The next day he breakfasted early, and then walked on towards the nearest town.
Who acts: Jack · What happens: breakfast, walk · To what, where: nearest town
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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 day | det |
| 2 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 day | amod |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 breakfasted | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 breakfasted | nsubj |
| 5 | breakfasted | breakfast | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | early | early | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 breakfasted | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 walked | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 walked | cc |
| 9 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 walked | advmod |
| 10 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 breakfasted | conj |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 town | case |
| 12 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 15 town | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 town | det |
| 14 | nearest | near | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 15 town | amod |
| 15 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 walked | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 breakfasted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | breakfast | past | Jack | day | early property | vn dine-39.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | walk | past | Jack not said here | the nearest town | then | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on town=Trajectory |
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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