The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 21, sentence 108
As she chanted the final words the head moved, and the limbs came back.
Who acts: girl, head, limbs · What happens: chant, move, come back · To what, where: final 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 (girl, head, limbs), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 3 chanted | mark |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 chanted | nsubj |
| 3 | chanted | chant | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 words | det |
| 5 | final | final | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 words | amod |
| 6 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 chanted | obj |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 head | det |
| 8 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 moved | nsubj |
| 9 | moved | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 words | acl:relcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 came | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 came | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 limbs | det |
| 13 | limbs | limb | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 came | nsubj |
| 14 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 chanted | conj |
| 15 | back | back | ADV | _ | 14 came | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 chanted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | chant | past | girl | the final words | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Topic | ||||
| 2 | move | past | the head | the final words not said here | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent word=Theme | ||||
| 3 | come back | past | the limbs | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP 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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