The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 24, sentence 78
And the doe lifted up its fore-foot and laid it on her side. '
Who acts: doe · What happens: lift up, lay · To what, where: fore foot, wretch, side
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 (doe), 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 lifted | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 doe | det |
| 3 | doe | doe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lifted | nsubj |
| 4 | lifted | lift | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 lifted | compound:prt |
| 6 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 foot | nmod:poss |
| 7 | fore | fore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 foot | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 fore | punct |
| 9 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lifted | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 laid | cc |
| 11 | laid | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 lifted | conj |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 laid | obj |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 side | case |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 side | nmod:poss |
| 15 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 laid | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 lifted | punct |
| 17 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 lifted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lift up | past | the doe | wretch's fore foot | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foot=Theme | ||||
| 2 | lay | past | the doe not said here | wretch | Eglantine's side | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme on side=Destination |
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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