The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 23, sentence 16
Once there, I can remain in some underground chamber, where no light can come.'
Who acts: I, light · What happens: remain, come · To what, where: underground chamber
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, light), 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 | Once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 2 there | advmod |
| 2 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 remain | punct |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 remain | nsubj |
| 5 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 remain | aux |
| 6 | remain | remain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 there | advcl |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 chamber | case |
| 8 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 10 chamber | det |
| 9 | underground | underground | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 chamber | amod |
| 10 | chamber | chamber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 remain | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 come | punct |
| 12 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 16 come | advmod |
| 13 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 14 light | det |
| 14 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 come | nsubj |
| 15 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 come | aux |
| 16 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 chamber | acl:relcl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 there | punct |
| 18 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 there | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remain | can | I | some underground chamber | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in chamber=Location | ||||
| 2 | come | can | no light | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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