The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 22, sentence 18
One by one her parents, her brothers and her sisters, drank also and died, singing a dirge to the memory of the buffalo.
Who acts: One · What happens: drink, die, sing · To what, where: dirge, memory
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (One), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 drank | nsubj |
| 2 | by | by | ADP | _ | 5 parents | case |
| 3 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 parents | nummod |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 parents | nmod:poss |
| 5 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 One | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 brothers | punct |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 8 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 parents | conj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 sisters | cc |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 sisters | nmod:poss |
| 11 | sisters | sister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 parents | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 drank | punct |
| 13 | drank | drink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | also | also | ADV | _ | 13 drank | advmod |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 died | cc |
| 16 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 drank | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 singing | punct |
| 18 | singing | sing | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 died | advcl |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 dirge | det |
| 20 | dirge | dirge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 singing | obj |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 memory | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 memory | det |
| 23 | memory | memory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 singing | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 buffalo | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 buffalo | det |
| 26 | buffalo | buffalo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 memory | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 drank | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drink | past | One by wife's one parents and wife's brothers and wife's sisters | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | die | past | One by wife's one parents and wife's brothers and wife's sisters not said here | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | sing speech: express | gerund | One by wife's one parents and wife's brothers and wife's sisters not said here | a dirge | the memory of the buffalo | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent dirge=Topic to memory=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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