The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 21, sentence 74
And raising his gun, he aimed just behind the ear.
Who acts: buffalo · What happens: raise, aim · To what, where: gun, ear
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 (buffalo), 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 | _ | 7 aimed | cc |
| 2 | raising | raise | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 aimed | advcl |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 gun | nmod:poss |
| 4 | gun | gun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 raising | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 raising | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 aimed | nsubj |
| 7 | aimed | aim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | just | just | ADV | _ | 11 ear | advmod |
| 9 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 11 ear | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 ear | det |
| 11 | ear | ear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 aimed | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 aimed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | raise | gerund | buffalo not said here | buffalo's gun | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gun=Theme | ||||
| 2 | aim | past | buffalo | the ear | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot |
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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