The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 21, sentence 32
So she went away and put together a small pot filled with healing herms, a horn that she used in tending sick people, a little knife, and a calabash containing deer fat; and, hiding these about her, she took leave of her father and mother and started across the mountains by the side of her husband.
Who acts: bride, calabash · What happens: go away, put together, fill, use, tend, contain · To what, where: small pot, horn, sick people, these, leave, mountains
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 (bride, calabash), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | away | away | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 put | cc |
| 6 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 went | conj |
| 7 | together | together | ADV | _ | 6 put | advmod |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 pot | det |
| 9 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 pot | amod |
| 10 | pot | pot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 put | obj |
| 11 | filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 pot | acl |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 herms | case |
| 13 | healing | healing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 herms | compound |
| 14 | herms | herm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 filled | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 horn | punct |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 horn | det |
| 17 | horn | horn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 herms | appos |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 used | mark |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 used | nsubj |
| 20 | used | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 horn | acl:relcl |
| 21 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 22 tending | mark |
| 22 | tending | tend | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 used | advcl |
| 23 | sick | sick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 people | amod |
| 24 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 tending | obj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 knife | punct |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 knife | det |
| 27 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 knife | amod |
| 28 | knife | knife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 people | nmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 fat | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 fat | cc |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 calabash | det |
| 32 | calabash | calabash | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 fat | nsubj |
| 33 | containing | contain | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 32 calabash | acl |
| 34 | deer | deer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 fat | compound |
| 35 | fat | fat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 36 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 39 hiding | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 hiding | cc |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 and | punct |
| 39 | hiding | hide | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 went | advcl |
| 40 | these | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 39 hiding | obj |
| 41 | about | about | ADP | _ | 42 her | case |
| 42 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 hiding | obl |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 took | punct |
| 44 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 45 took | nsubj |
| 45 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | parataxis |
| 46 | leave | leave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 took | obj |
| 47 | of | of | ADP | _ | 49 father | case |
| 48 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 49 father | nmod:poss |
| 49 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 leave | nmod |
| 50 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 51 mother | cc |
| 51 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 father | conj |
| 52 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 53 started | cc |
| 53 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 45 took | conj |
| 54 | across | across | ADP | _ | 56 mountains | case |
| 55 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 56 mountains | det |
| 56 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 53 started | obl |
| 57 | by | by | ADP | _ | 59 side | case |
| 58 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 59 side | det |
| 59 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 53 started | obl |
| 60 | of | of | ADP | _ | 62 husband | case |
| 61 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 62 husband | nmod:poss |
| 62 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 59 side | nmod |
| 63 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go away | past | bride | away property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | put together | infinitive | bride not said here | a small pot | together property | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent pot=Goal | |||
| 3 | fill | participle | a small pot not said here | with healing herms | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with herm=Instrument | ||||
| 4 | use | past | bride | a horn not said here | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horn=Patient | ||||
| 5 | tend | gerund | bride not said here | sick people a little knife | vn caring-75.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Theme | ||||
| 6 | contain | gerund | a calabash not said here | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 7 | fat | a calabash | tree rules | ||||||
| 8 | hide | gerund | bride not said here | these | about bride | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent this=Patient about she=Location | |||
| 9 | take | past | bride | leave of bride's father and mother | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leave=Theme | ||||
| 10 | start | past | bride not said here | the mountains | by the side of bride's husband | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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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