The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 21, sentence 121
Then the girl took up the pitcher and all her other things and left the shed, trying for the third time to bring the buffalo back to life.
Who acts: girl · What happens: take up, leave, try, bring back · To what, where: pitcher, shed, buffalo, life
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), 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 | 4 took | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 girl | det |
| 3 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 took | nsubj |
| 4 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 took | compound:prt |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 pitcher | det |
| 7 | pitcher | pitcher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 took | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 things | cc |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 things | det:predet |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 things | nmod:poss |
| 11 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 things | amod |
| 12 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 pitcher | conj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 left | cc |
| 14 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 took | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 shed | det |
| 16 | shed | shed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 left | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 trying | punct |
| 18 | trying | try | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 left | advcl |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 time | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 time | det |
| 21 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 22 time | amod |
| 22 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 trying | obl |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 bring | mark |
| 24 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 trying | xcomp |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 buffalo | det |
| 26 | buffalo | buffalo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 bring | obj |
| 27 | back | back | ADV | _ | 24 bring | advmod |
| 28 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 life | case |
| 29 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 bring | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take up | past | the girl | the pitcher and girl's other things | then | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pitcher=Theme | |||
| 2 | leave | past | the girl not said here | the shed | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shed=Theme | ||||
| 3 | try | gerund | the girl not said here | time | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | bring back not said to happen | to-infinitive | the girl not said here | the buffalo | life | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent buffalo=Theme to life=Destination |
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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