The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 21, sentence 133
Balancing her basket on her head, she walked along, and directly she had left the village behind her she broke out into the song of the Rover of the Plain, and at last, at the end of the day, she came to the group of huts where her parents lived.
Who acts: mother, parents, Rover · What happens: balance, walk, leave, break out, come, live · To what, where: basket, head, village, song, last
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 (mother, parents, Rover), 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 | Balancing | balance | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 walked | advcl |
| 2 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 basket | nmod:poss |
| 3 | basket | basket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Balancing | obj |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 head | case |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 head | nmod:poss |
| 6 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Balancing | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Balancing | punct |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 walked | nsubj |
| 9 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | along | along | ADV | _ | 9 walked | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 left | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 left | cc |
| 13 | directly | directly | ADV | _ | 16 left | advmod |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 left | nsubj |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 left | aux |
| 16 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 walked | conj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 village | det |
| 18 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 left | obj |
| 19 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 22 broke | mark |
| 20 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 broke | nmod:poss |
| 21 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 broke | nsubj |
| 22 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 left | advcl |
| 23 | out | out | ADP | _ | 22 broke | compound:prt |
| 24 | into | into | ADP | _ | 26 song | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 song | det |
| 26 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 broke | obl |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 Rover | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 Rover | det |
| 29 | Rover | Rover | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 song | nmod |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 Plain | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 Plain | det |
| 32 | Plain | Plain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 Rover | nmod |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 came | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 came | cc |
| 35 | at | at | ADP | _ | 36 last | case |
| 36 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 came | obl |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 end | punct |
| 38 | at | at | ADP | _ | 40 end | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 end | det |
| 40 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 last | obl |
| 41 | of | of | ADP | _ | 43 day | case |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 day | det |
| 43 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 end | nmod |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 last | punct |
| 45 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 46 came | nsubj |
| 46 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 walked | conj |
| 47 | to | to | ADP | _ | 49 group | case |
| 48 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 49 group | det |
| 49 | group | group | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 came | obl |
| 50 | of | of | ADP | _ | 51 huts | case |
| 51 | huts | hut | NOUN | Number=Plur | 49 group | nmod |
| 52 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 55 lived | advmod |
| 53 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 54 parents | nmod:poss |
| 54 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 55 lived | nsubj |
| 55 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 51 huts | acl:relcl |
| 56 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 walked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | balance | gerund | mother not said here | mother's basket | mother's head | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent basket=Theme on head=Location | |||
| 2 | walk | past | mother | along property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | leave | past · perfect | mother | the village | directly property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent village=Theme | |||
| 4 | break out | past | mother | into the song of the Rover of the Plain result | vn break-45.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Patient into song=Result | ||||
| 5 | come | past | mother | last | to the group of huts | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to group=Initial_Location | |||
| 6 | live | past | mother's parents | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 7 | sing | the Rover of the Plain | nom song «communication intransitive»: of=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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