The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 24, sentence 11
The little creature looked up and into her face, and nodded her head as the maid of honour unfastened the latch, but bounded away into the woods, and was lost to sight in a moment.
Who acts: little creature, honour · What happens: look up, nod, unfasten, bound away, lose · To what, where: head, latch, woods, sight
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 (little creature, honour), 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 | 3 creature | det |
| 2 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 creature | amod |
| 3 | creature | creature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 looked | nsubj |
| 4 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 looked | compound:prt |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 face | cc |
| 7 | into | into | ADP | _ | 9 face | case |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 face | nmod:poss |
| 9 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 looked | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 nodded | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 nodded | cc |
| 12 | nodded | nod | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 looked | conj |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 head | nmod:poss |
| 14 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 nodded | obj |
| 15 | as | as | ADP | _ | 17 maid | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 maid | det |
| 17 | maid | maid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 nodded | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 honour | case |
| 19 | honour | honour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 maid | nmod |
| 20 | unfastened | unfasten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 honour | acl |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 latch | det |
| 22 | latch | latch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 unfastened | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 bounded | punct |
| 24 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 25 bounded | cc |
| 25 | bounded | bound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 looked | parataxis |
| 26 | away | away | ADV | _ | 25 bounded | advmod |
| 27 | into | into | ADP | _ | 29 woods | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 woods | det |
| 29 | woods | wood | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 bounded | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 lost | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 lost | cc |
| 32 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 lost | aux:pass |
| 33 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 bounded | conj |
| 34 | to | to | PART | _ | 35 sight | mark |
| 35 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 lost | xcomp |
| 36 | in | in | ADP | _ | 38 moment | case |
| 37 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 moment | det |
| 38 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 lost | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look up | past | the little creature | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | nod | past | the little creature not said here | creature's head | as the maid of honour | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient | |||
| 3 | unfasten | participle | honour not said here | the latch | vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent latch=Patient | ||||
| 4 | bound away | past | the woods | away property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into wood=Destination | ||||
| 5 | lose | past · passive | sight | moment | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V» |
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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