The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 21, sentence 105
Next she applied the horn to the spot and blew with all her force till, at length, the blood began to move.
Who acts: girl, blood · What happens: apply, blow, begin, move · To what, where: horn
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 (girl, blood), 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 | Next | next | ADV | _ | 3 applied | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 applied | nsubj |
| 3 | applied | apply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 horn | det |
| 5 | horn | horn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 applied | obj |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 spot | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 spot | det |
| 8 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 applied | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 blew | cc |
| 10 | blew | blow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 applied | conj |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 till | case |
| 12 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 till | det:predet |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 till | nmod:poss |
| 14 | force | force | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 till | compound |
| 15 | till | till | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 blew | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 length | punct |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 length | case |
| 18 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 blew | parataxis |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 began | punct |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 blood | det |
| 21 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 began | nsubj |
| 22 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 applied | conj |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 move | mark |
| 24 | move | move | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 began | xcomp |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 applied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | apply | past | girl | the horn | to the spot; next property | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horn=Theme | |||
| 2 | blow | past | girl not said here | with girl's force till | vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme»: with till=Theme | ||||
| 3 | begin | past | the blood | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | move | to-infinitive | the blood not said here | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=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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