The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 20, sentence 8
This being decided, he sprang up, and set out along the path which led to the castle.
Who acts: Jack, path · What happens: decide, spring up, set out, lead · To what, where: This, path
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, path), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 decided | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 decided | aux:pass |
| 3 | decided | decide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 sprang | punct |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 sprang | nsubj |
| 6 | sprang | spring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 decided | conj |
| 7 | up | up | ADP | _ | 6 sprang | compound:prt |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 set | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 set | cc |
| 10 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 decided | parataxis |
| 11 | out | out | ADP | _ | 10 set | compound:prt |
| 12 | along | along | ADP | _ | 14 path | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 path | det |
| 14 | path | path | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 set | obl |
| 15 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 led | nsubj |
| 16 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 path | acl:relcl |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 castle | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 castle | det |
| 19 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 led | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 decided | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | decide | gerund · passive | This | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Topic | |||||
| 2 | spring up | past | Jack | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | set out | infinitive | the path | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme along path=Initial_Location | |||||
| 4 | lead | past | the path | to the castle | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to castle=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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