The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 21, sentence 12
Then the parents called in the girl, who was lying in the sun outside the hut, and, in the presence of all the village, a goat was killed, the sacred dance took place, and a blessing was said over the heads of the young people.
Who acts: parents, sacred dance · What happens: call, lie, kill, take, say · To what, where: parents, sun, presence, place, blessing, heads · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (parents, sacred dance), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 lying | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 parents | det |
| 3 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 lying | nsubj |
| 4 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 parents | acl |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 girl | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 girl | det |
| 7 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 called | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 lying | punct |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 lying | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 lying | aux |
| 11 | lying | lie | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 sun | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 sun | det |
| 14 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 lying | obl |
| 15 | outside | outside | ADP | _ | 17 hut | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 hut | det |
| 17 | hut | hut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 lying | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 killed | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 killed | cc |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 presence | punct |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 presence | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 presence | det |
| 23 | presence | presence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 killed | nsubj:pass |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 village | case |
| 25 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 27 village | det:predet |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 village | det |
| 27 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 presence | nmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 goat | punct |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 goat | det |
| 30 | goat | goat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 village | conj |
| 31 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 killed | aux:pass |
| 32 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 lying | conj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 took | punct |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 dance | det |
| 35 | sacred | sacred | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 dance | amod |
| 36 | dance | dance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 took | nsubj |
| 37 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 killed | conj |
| 38 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 took | obj |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 said | punct |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 said | cc |
| 41 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 42 blessing | det |
| 42 | blessing | blessing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 said | nsubj:pass |
| 43 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 44 said | aux:pass |
| 44 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 37 took | conj |
| 45 | over | over | ADP | _ | 47 heads | case |
| 46 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 47 heads | det |
| 47 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 44 said | obl |
| 48 | of | of | ADP | _ | 51 people | case |
| 49 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 51 people | det |
| 50 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 51 people | amod |
| 51 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 47 heads | nmod |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 lying | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | participle | the parents not said here | in the girl | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | lie | past · progressive | the parents | the sun | then | outside the hut | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in sun=Location | ||
| 3 | kill | past · passive | the presence of all village and a goat | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 4 | take | past | the sacred dance | place | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Theme | ||||
| 5 | say speech: assert | past · passive | a blessing | the heads of the young people | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic |
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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