The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 24, sentence 88
So, taking a knife out of his pocket, he began to saw away the woodwork.
Who acts: maid · What happens: take, begin, saw away · To what, where: knife, pocket, woodwork
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 (maid), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 12 began | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 So | punct |
| 3 | taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 began | advcl |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 knife | det |
| 5 | knife | knife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 taking | obj |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 9 pocket | case |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 pocket | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 pocket | nmod:poss |
| 9 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 taking | obl | ||
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 taking | punct |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 began | nsubj |
| 12 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 saw | mark |
| 14 | saw | saw | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 began | xcomp |
| 15 | away | away | ADP | _ | 14 saw | compound:prt |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 woodwork | det |
| 17 | woodwork | woodwork | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 saw | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | gerund | maid not said here | a knife | maid's pocket | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent knife=Theme out pocket=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | begin | past | maid | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | saw away | to-infinitive | maid not said here | the woodwork | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent woodwork=Patient |
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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