The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 21, sentence 63
And when at last his hunger was satisfied, he crept back to his lair.
Who acts: mistress · What happens: be, creep back, hunger · To what, where: last hunger, lair
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 (mistress), 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 | _ | 11 crept | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 satisfied | advmod |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 hunger | case |
| 4 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 hunger | amod |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 hunger | nmod:poss |
| 6 | hunger | hunger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 satisfied | obl |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 satisfied | cop |
| 8 | satisfied | satisfied | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 crept | advcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 crept | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 crept | nsubj |
| 11 | crept | creep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | back | back | ADV | _ | 11 crept | advmod |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 lair | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 lair | nmod:poss |
| 15 | lair | lair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 crept | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 crept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | mistress not said here | mistress's last hunger | satisfied property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | creep back | past | mistress | mistress's lair | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to lair=Destination | ||||
| 3 | hunger | mistress | nom hunger «state 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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