The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 21, sentence 123
The girl entered the hut, where her husband and his mother were getting ready to go out.
Who acts: girl, husband · What happens: enter, get, go out · To what, where: hut
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, husband), 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 girl | det |
| 2 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 entered | nsubj |
| 3 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 hut | det |
| 5 | hut | hut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 entered | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 getting | punct |
| 7 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 14 getting | advmod |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 husband | nmod:poss |
| 9 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 getting | nsubj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 mother | cc |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 mother | nmod:poss |
| 12 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 husband | conj |
| 13 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 getting | aux |
| 14 | getting | get | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 entered | advcl |
| 15 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 getting | xcomp |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 go | mark |
| 17 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 ready | xcomp |
| 18 | out | out | ADV | _ | 17 go | advmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 entered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enter | past | the girl | the hut | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme hut=Destination | ||||
| 2 | get | past · progressive | girl's husband and husband's mother | ready property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | go out | to-infinitive | girl's husband and husband's mother not said here | out property | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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