The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 21, sentence 101
And she turned her back on them, and would not even eat the food they had brought.
Who acts: wife, food · What happens: turn, not eat, bring · To what, where: back, food, words
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife, food), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 turned | cc |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 turned | nsubj |
| 3 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 back | nmod:poss |
| 5 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 turned | obj |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 them | case |
| 7 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 turned | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 eat | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 eat | cc |
| 10 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 eat | aux |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 eat | advmod |
| 12 | even | even | ADV | _ | 13 eat | advmod |
| 13 | eat | eat | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 turned | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 food | det |
| 15 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 eat | obj |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 brought | aux |
| 18 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 food | acl:relcl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | past | wife | wife's back | on words = word | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent back=Theme | |||
| 2 | not eat | would | wife not said here | the food | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Patient | ||||
| 3 | bring | past · perfect · passive | the food not said here | words = word | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: subject=Theme |
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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