The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 21, sentence 49
And the villagers watched her return laden, and said to each other:
Who acts: villagers, bride · What happens: watch, lade, say, return · To what, where: return, each · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (villagers, bride), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 watched | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 villagers | det |
| 3 | villagers | villager | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 watched | nsubj |
| 4 | watched | watch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 return | nmod:poss |
| 6 | return | return | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 watched | obj |
| 7 | laden | lade | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 return | acl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 said | cc |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 watched | conj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 each | case |
| 12 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 10 said | obl |
| 13 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 each | fixed |
| 14 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 4 watched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | watch | past | the villagers | bride's return | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent return=Theme | ||||
| 2 | lade | participle | bride's return not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the villagers not said here | each | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to each=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | return | bride | nom return «communication intransitive»: 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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