The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 24, sentence 63
The young man felt like a murderer as he ran hastily up to where the white doe lay, and did his best to soothe the pain she felt, which, in reality, was the last part of the punishment sent by the Fairy of the Fountain.
Who acts: young man, man, white doe, Eglantine, pain · What happens: feel, run, lay, do, soothe, be · To what, where: best, pain, last part, reality, punishment
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 (young man, man, white doe, Eglantine), 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 man | det |
| 2 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 man | amod |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 felt | nsubj |
| 4 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | like | like | ADP | _ | 7 murderer | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 murderer | det |
| 7 | murderer | murderer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 felt | obl |
| 8 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 10 ran | mark |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 ran | nsubj |
| 10 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 felt | advcl |
| 11 | hastily | hastily | ADV | _ | 10 ran | advmod |
| 12 | up | up | ADP | _ | 14 where | case |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 where | case |
| 14 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 10 ran | obl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 doe | det |
| 16 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 doe | amod |
| 17 | doe | doe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 lay | nsubj |
| 18 | lay | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 where | advcl:relcl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 did | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 did | cc |
| 21 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 felt | conj |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 best | nmod:poss |
| 23 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 21 did | obj |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 soothe | mark |
| 25 | soothe | soothe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 did | advcl |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 pain | det |
| 27 | pain | pain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 soothe | obj |
| 28 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 felt | nsubj |
| 29 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 pain | acl:relcl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 part | punct |
| 31 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 39 part | nsubj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 which | punct |
| 33 | in | in | ADP | _ | 34 reality | case |
| 34 | reality | reality | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 part | obl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 reality | punct |
| 36 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 part | cop |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 part | det |
| 38 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 part | amod |
| 39 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 pain | conj |
| 40 | of | of | ADP | _ | 42 punishment | case |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 punishment | det |
| 42 | punishment | punishment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 part | nmod |
| 43 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 42 punishment | acl |
| 44 | by | by | ADP | _ | 46 Fairy | case |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 Fairy | det |
| 46 | Fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 sent | obl |
| 47 | of | of | ADP | _ | 49 Fountain | case |
| 48 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 49 Fountain | det |
| 49 | Fountain | Fountain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 46 Fairy | nmod |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 felt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | past | the young man | like a murderer | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V S»: agent=Agent like murderer=Theme | ||||
| 2 | run | past | man | hastily property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme up where=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | lay | present | the white doe | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | do | past | the young man not said here | doe's best | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent good=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | soothe | to-infinitive | the young man not said here | the pain and the last part | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus pain=Experiencer | ||||
| 6 | feel | past | Eglantine | the pain and the last part not said here | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pain=Theme | ||||
| 7 | is a | past | the pain and the last part | the last part | reality | of the punishment | tree rules | ||
| 8 | send | participle | the punishment not said here | by the Fairy of the Fountain | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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