The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 21, sentence 68
'They perceived what happened, of course; so to-night you had better seek your supper further off.'
Who acts: traces, you · What happens: perceive, happen, have, seek · To what, where: supper
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 (traces, you), 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 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 perceived | punct |
| 2 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 perceived | nsubj |
| 3 | perceived | perceive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 happened | nsubj |
| 5 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 perceived | ccomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 of | punct |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 happened | obl |
| 8 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 of | fixed |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 had | punct |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 15 had | advmod |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 night | case |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 to | punct |
| 13 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 had | obl |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 had | nsubj |
| 15 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 perceived | conj |
| 16 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 15 had | xcomp |
| 17 | seek | seek | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 had | xcomp |
| 18 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 supper | nmod:poss |
| 19 | supper | supper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 seek | obj |
| 20 | further | further | ADV | _ | 21 off | advmod |
| 21 | off | off | ADV | _ | 17 seek | advmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 perceived | punct |
| 23 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 perceived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | perceive | past | traces = trace | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | happen | past | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | have | past | you | night | good property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | seek | infinitive | you not said here | your supper | off property | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent supper=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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