The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 21, sentence 40
But in truth she had done nothing of the sort, and it was only an excuse to go and seek the buffalo.
Who acts: girl, sort · What happens: do, be, go, seek · To what, where: nothing, truth, excuse, buffalo
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, sort), 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 | _ | 6 done | cc |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 3 truth | case |
| 3 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 done | obl |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 done | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 done | aux |
| 6 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 6 done | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 sort | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 sort | det |
| 10 | sort | sort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 nothing | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 excuse | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 excuse | cc |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 excuse | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 excuse | cop |
| 15 | only | only | ADV | _ | 17 excuse | advmod |
| 16 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 excuse | det |
| 17 | excuse | excuse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 done | parataxis |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 go | mark |
| 19 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 excuse | acl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 seek | cc |
| 21 | seek | seek | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 go | conj |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 buffalo | det |
| 23 | buffalo | buffalo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 seek | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 done | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past · perfect | girl | nothing | truth | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | is a | past | sort | a excuse | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | go | to-infinitive | girl not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | seek | infinitive | girl not said here | the buffalo | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent buffalo=Theme |
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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