The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 24, sentence 37
Yet, instead of turning to fly, something bade her go and look at him unseen.
What happens: turn, fly, go, look
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: 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 | Yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 5 turning | cc |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 turning | punct |
| 3 | instead | instead | ADV | ExtPos=SCONJ | 5 turning | mark |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 instead | fixed |
| 5 | turning | turn | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 fly | mark |
| 7 | fly | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 turning | xcomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 bade | punct |
| 9 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 10 bade | compound |
| 10 | bade | bade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 turning | parataxis |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 bade | punct |
| 12 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 turning | parataxis |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 look | cc |
| 14 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 12 go | conj |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 him | case |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 look | obl |
| 17 | unseen | unseen | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 look | xcomp |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 turning | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | gerund | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | fly | to-infinitive | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | go | infinitive | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | look | infinitive | at doe; unseen property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at he=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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