The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 20, sentence 98
But his good example was not followed by his sons and his grandsons.
Who acts: sons, Jack · What happens: not follow, exemplify · To what, where: good example
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 (sons, 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 followed | cc |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 example | nmod:poss |
| 3 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 example | amod |
| 4 | example | example | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 followed | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 followed | aux:pass |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 followed | advmod |
| 7 | followed | follow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 sons | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 sons | nmod:poss |
| 10 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 followed | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 grandsons | cc |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 grandsons | nmod:poss |
| 13 | grandsons | grandson | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 sons | conj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 followed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not follow | past · passive | Jack's sons and Jack's grandsons | Jack's good example | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | exemplify | Jack | nom example «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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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