The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 20, sentence 61
Now that by his cunning he had obtained possession of the three magic objects, he resolved to return to his native place.
Who acts: man · What happens: obtain, resolve, return, possess · To what, where: possession, three magic objects
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 (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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 resolved | advmod |
| 2 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 1 Now | fixed |
| 3 | by | by | ADP | _ | 5 cunning | case |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 cunning | nmod:poss |
| 5 | cunning | cunning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 resolved | obl |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 obtained | nsubj |
| 7 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 obtained | aux |
| 8 | obtained | obtain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 cunning | acl:relcl |
| 9 | possession | possession | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 obtained | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 objects | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 objects | det |
| 12 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 objects | nummod |
| 13 | magic | magic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 objects | amod |
| 14 | objects | object | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 possession | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 cunning | punct |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 resolved | nsubj |
| 17 | resolved | resolve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 return | mark |
| 19 | return | return | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 resolved | xcomp |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 place | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 place | nmod:poss |
| 22 | native | native | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 place | amod |
| 23 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 return | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 resolved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | obtain | past · perfect | man | possession of the three magic objects | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent possession=Theme | ||||
| 2 | resolve | past | man | now | by man's cunning | tree rules | |||
| 3 | return | to-infinitive | man not said here | to man's native place result | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to place=Result | ||||
| 4 | possess | the three magic objects | nom possession «act transitive»: of=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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