The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 22, sentence 19
The girl's husband looked on with horror; and returned sadly home across the mountains, and, entering his hut, threw himself on the ground.
Who acts: husband · What happens: look on, return, enter, throw · To what, where: mountains, hut, husband, ground
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 (husband), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 girl | det |
| 2 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 husband | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 girl | case |
| 4 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 looked | nsubj |
| 5 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 looked | compound:prt |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 horror | case |
| 8 | horror | horror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 looked | obl |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 returned | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 returned | cc |
| 11 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 looked | conj |
| 12 | sadly | sadly | ADV | _ | 13 home | advmod |
| 13 | home | home | ADV | _ | 11 returned | advmod |
| 14 | across | across | ADP | _ | 16 mountains | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 mountains | det |
| 16 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 returned | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 entering | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 entering | cc |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 entering | punct |
| 20 | entering | enter | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 looked | advcl |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 hut | nmod:poss |
| 22 | hut | hut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 entering | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 threw | punct |
| 24 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 looked | parataxis |
| 25 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 24 threw | obj |
| 26 | on | on | ADP | _ | 28 ground | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 ground | det |
| 28 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 threw | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look on | past | the girl's husband | with horror | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | return | past | the girl's husband not said here | the mountains | home property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme across mountain=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | enter | gerund | the girl's husband not said here | husband's hut | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme hut=Destination | ||||
| 4 | throw | past | husband | the ground | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent himself=Theme on ground=Destination |
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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