The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 21, sentence 109
The buffalo began to feel alive again and shook his horns, and stood up and stretched himself.
Who acts: buffalo · What happens: begin, feel, shake, stand up, stretch · To what, where: horns, buffalo
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 (buffalo), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 buffalo | det |
| 2 | buffalo | buffalo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 began | nsubj |
| 3 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 feel | mark |
| 5 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 began | xcomp |
| 6 | alive | alive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 feel | xcomp |
| 7 | again | again | ADV | _ | 5 feel | advmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 shook | cc |
| 9 | shook | shake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 began | conj |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 horns | nmod:poss |
| 11 | horns | horn | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 shook | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 stood | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 stood | cc |
| 14 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 began | parataxis |
| 15 | up | up | ADP | _ | 14 stood | compound:prt |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 stretched | cc |
| 17 | stretched | stretch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 stood | conj |
| 18 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 17 stretched | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | the buffalo | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | feel | to-infinitive | the buffalo not said here | again | alive property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | shake | past | the buffalo not said here | buffalo's horns | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent horn=Patient | ||||
| 4 | stand up | past | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | stretch | past | buffalo | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent himself=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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