The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 21, sentence 67
In the evening the girl crept out to the buffalo's hiding-place, and said to him:
Who acts: girl · What happens: creep out, say · To what, where: hiding place, buffalo · 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 (girl), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 evening | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 evening | det |
| 3 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 crept | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 girl | det |
| 5 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 crept | nsubj |
| 6 | crept | creep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | out | out | ADV | _ | 6 crept | advmod |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 place | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 buffalo | det |
| 10 | buffalo | buffalo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 place | nmod:poss |
| 11 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 10 buffalo | case |
| 12 | hiding | hiding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 place | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 hiding | punct |
| 14 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 crept | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 said | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 said | cc |
| 17 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 crept | conj |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 him | case |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 said | obl |
| 20 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 crept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | creep out | past | the girl | the buffalo's hiding place | evening | out property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to place=Destination | ||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the girl not said here | buffalo | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient |
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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