The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 25, sentence 16
And off she went to gather some flowers to stick in her hair.
Who acts: power · What happens: go, gather, stick · To what, where: flowers, hair
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 (power), 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 went | cc |
| 2 | off | off | ADV | _ | 4 went | advmod |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 gather | mark |
| 6 | gather | gather | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 went | xcomp |
| 7 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 8 flowers | det |
| 8 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 gather | obj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 stick | mark |
| 10 | stick | stick | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 gather | advcl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 hair | case |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 hair | nmod:poss |
| 13 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 stick | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | power | off property | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | gather | to-infinitive | power not said here | some flowers | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flower=Theme | ||||
| 3 | stick | to-infinitive | power not said here | power's hair | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in hair=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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