The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 21, sentence 91
When they had divided the buffalo's flesh, and each woman had the family portion in her basket, the stranger wife got up and said:
Who acts: woman, stranger wife · What happens: divide, have, get up, say · To what, where: things, family portion, basket · 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 (woman, stranger wife), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 divided | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 divided | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 divided | aux |
| 4 | divided | divide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 said | ccomp |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 buffalo | det |
| 6 | buffalo | buffalo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 flesh | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 buffalo | case |
| 8 | flesh | flesh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 divided | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 had | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 had | cc |
| 11 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 woman | det |
| 12 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 had | nsubj |
| 13 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 divided | parataxis |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 portion | det |
| 15 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 portion | compound |
| 16 | portion | portion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 had | obj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 basket | case |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 basket | nmod:poss |
| 19 | basket | basket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 portion | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 got | punct |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 wife | det |
| 22 | stranger | stranger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 wife | compound |
| 23 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 got | nsubj |
| 24 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 had | conj |
| 25 | up | up | ADV | _ | 24 got | advmod |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 said | cc |
| 27 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 28 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 27 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | divide | past · perfect · passive | things = thing | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | have | past | each woman | the family portion | woman's basket | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent portion=Patient | |||
| 3 | get up | past | the stranger wife | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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