The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 21, sentence 127
However, in spite of their warnings, the girl left the hut in the direction of the lake.
Who acts: girl, pitcher · What happens: leave, spite, warn · To what, where: hut, spite, warnings
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, pitcher), 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 | However | however | ADV | _ | 11 left | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 However | punct |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 spite | case |
| 4 | spite | spite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 left | obl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 warnings | case |
| 6 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 warnings | nmod:poss |
| 7 | warnings | warning | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 spite | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 spite | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 girl | det |
| 10 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 left | nsubj |
| 11 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 hut | det |
| 13 | hut | hut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 left | obj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 direction | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 direction | det |
| 16 | direction | direction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 left | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 lake | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 lake | det |
| 19 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 direction | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 left | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | past | the girl | the hut | spite of pitcher's warnings | in the direction of the lake; however property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent hut=Theme in spite=Location | ||
| 2 | spite | pitcher's warnings | nom spite «feeling transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 3 | warn | pitcher | nom warning «communication transitive»: poss=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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