The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 20, sentence 67
In the morning, he caused it all to vanish, and when his brothers entered the stable they found him lying on the straw.
Who acts: man, castle, brothers · What happens: cause, vanish, enter, find, lie · To what, where: castle, stable, man, straw
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, castle, brothers), 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 morning | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 morning | det |
| 3 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 caused | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 morning | punct |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 caused | nsubj |
| 6 | caused | cause | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 caused | obj |
| 8 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 it | det |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 vanish | mark |
| 10 | vanish | vanish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 caused | xcomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 found | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 found | cc |
| 13 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 entered | advmod |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 15 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 entered | nsubj |
| 16 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 found | advcl |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 stable | det |
| 18 | stable | stable | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 entered | obj |
| 19 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 found | nsubj |
| 20 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 caused | conj |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 found | obj |
| 22 | lying | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 found | xcomp |
| 23 | on | on | ADP | _ | 25 straw | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 straw | det |
| 25 | straw | straw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 lying | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 caused | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cause | past | man | castle | morning | tree rules | |||
| 2 | vanish | to-infinitive | castle not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | enter | past | man's brothers | the stable | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme stable=Destination | ||||
| 4 | find | past | brothers = brother | man | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent he=Attribute clause=Theme | ||||
| 5 | lie | gerund | man not said here | the straw | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on straw=Location |
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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