The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 24, sentence 50
Then she opened her mouth and let her tongue hang out, as if she were dying of thirst, and the prince, as she expected, hastened to the stream to get her some more water.
Who acts: darkness, tongue · What happens: open, let, hang out, die, expect, hasten · To what, where: mouth, tongue, stream, more water
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 (darkness, tongue), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 opened | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 opened | nsubj |
| 3 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 5 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 opened | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 let | cc |
| 7 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 opened | conj |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 tongue | nmod:poss |
| 9 | tongue | tongue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 let | obj |
| 10 | hang | hang | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 let | xcomp |
| 11 | out | out | ADP | _ | 10 hang | compound:prt |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 dying | punct |
| 13 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 17 dying | mark |
| 14 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 17 dying | mark |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 dying | nsubj |
| 16 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 dying | aux |
| 17 | dying | die | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 hang | advcl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 thirst | case |
| 19 | thirst | thirst | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 dying | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 prince | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 prince | cc |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 prince | det |
| 23 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 opened | parataxis |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 expected | punct |
| 25 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 27 expected | mark |
| 26 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 expected | nsubj |
| 27 | expected | expect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 opened | parataxis |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 hastened | punct |
| 29 | hastened | hasten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 expected | conj |
| 30 | to | to | ADP | _ | 32 stream | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 stream | det |
| 32 | stream | stream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 hastened | obl |
| 33 | to | to | PART | _ | 34 get | mark |
| 34 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 hastened | advcl |
| 35 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 water | nmod:poss |
| 36 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 38 water | det |
| 37 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 38 water | amod |
| 38 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 get | obj |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 opened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | open | past | darkness | darkness's mouth | then | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location mouth=Theme | |||
| 2 | let | infinitive | darkness not said here | darkness's tongue | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | hang out | infinitive | darkness's tongue not said here | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | die | past · progressive | darkness | of thirst | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient of thirst=Causer | ||||
| 5 | expect | past | darkness | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | hasten | participle | darkness not said here | the stream | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to stream=Destination | ||||
| 7 | get | to-infinitive | darkness not said here | darkness's more water | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer water=Stimulus |
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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