The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 25, sentence 103
And a little later the pink and grey parrot stood before the giant.
Who acts: pink parrot · What happens: stand
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pink parrot), 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 | _ | 10 stood | cc |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 little | det |
| 3 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 later | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 10 stood | advmod |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 parrot | det |
| 6 | pink | pink | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 parrot | amod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 grey | cc |
| 8 | grey | grey | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 pink | conj |
| 9 | parrot | parrot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 stood | nsubj |
| 10 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | before | before | ADP | _ | 13 giant | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 giant | det |
| 13 | giant | giant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 stood | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | the pink parrot | before the giant | late property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before giant=Location |
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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