The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 21, sentence 33
But the young man did not see the buffalo that followed them, which had left his home to be the servant of his wife.
Who acts: young man, buffalo · What happens: not see, follow, leave, be · To what, where: buffalo, people, servant
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 (young man, buffalo), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 see | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 man | det |
| 3 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 man | amod |
| 4 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 see | nsubj |
| 5 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 see | aux |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 see | advmod |
| 7 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 buffalo | det |
| 9 | buffalo | buffalo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 see | obj |
| 10 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 followed | nsubj |
| 11 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 buffalo | acl:relcl |
| 12 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 followed | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 left | punct |
| 14 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 left | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 left | aux |
| 16 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 buffalo | acl |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 home | nmod:poss |
| 18 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 left | obj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 servant | mark |
| 20 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 22 servant | cop |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 servant | det |
| 22 | servant | servant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 left | advcl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 wife | case |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 wife | nmod:poss |
| 25 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 servant | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not see | past · do-support | the young man | the buffalo | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer buffalo=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | follow | past | the buffalo | people | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | ||||
| 3 | leave | past · perfect · passive | the buffalo | vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme home=Attribute | |||||
| 4 | is a | to-infinitive | the servant | of man's wife | tree rules |
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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