The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 24, sentence 106
And everybody was delighted, except Cerisette and her mother, who were put in a boat and carried to a small island, where they had to work hard for their living.
Who acts: everybody, Cerisette · What happens: be, put, carry, have, work, live · To what, where: mother, boat, small island
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (everybody, Cerisette), 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 | _ | 4 delighted | cc |
| 2 | everybody | everybody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 4 delighted | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 delighted | cop |
| 4 | delighted | delighted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Cerisette | punct |
| 6 | except | except | ADP | _ | 7 Cerisette | case |
| 7 | Cerisette | Cerisette | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 delighted | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 mother | cc |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 mother | nmod:poss |
| 10 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Cerisette | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 put | punct |
| 12 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 put | nsubj |
| 13 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 put | aux:pass |
| 14 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 mother | acl:relcl |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 boat | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 boat | det |
| 17 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 put | obl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 carried | cc |
| 19 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 put | conj |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 island | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 island | det |
| 22 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 island | amod |
| 23 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 carried | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 had | punct |
| 25 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 27 had | advmod |
| 26 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 had | nsubj |
| 27 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 island | acl:relcl |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 work | mark |
| 29 | work | work | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 had | xcomp |
| 30 | hard | hard | ADV | Degree=Pos | 29 work | advmod |
| 31 | for | for | ADP | _ | 33 living | case |
| 32 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 living | nmod:poss |
| 33 | living | living | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 work | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 delighted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | everybody | except Cerisette and fairy's mother; delighted property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | put | past · passive | fairy's mother | a boat | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in boat=Destination | ||||
| 3 | carry | past | a small island | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to island=Destination | |||||
| 4 | have | past | Cerisette | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | work | to-infinitive | Cerisette not said here | for Cerisette's living; hard property | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for living=Beneficiary | ||||
| 6 | live | Cerisette | nom living «cognition intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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