The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 25, sentence 28
The new fish felt a little afraid of taking such a journey; but as she was still more afraid of being left alone, she waved her tail in token of consent, and off they all set, hundreds of them together.
Who acts: new fish, queen · What happens: feel, take, be, leave, wave, set · To what, where: journey, tail, hundreds
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 (new fish, queen), 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 fish | det |
| 2 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 fish | amod |
| 3 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 felt | nsubj |
| 4 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 little | det |
| 6 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 afraid | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 felt | xcomp |
| 8 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 9 taking | mark |
| 9 | taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 afraid | advcl |
| 10 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 12 journey | det:predet |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 journey | det |
| 12 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 taking | obj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 waved | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 27 waved | cc |
| 15 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 20 afraid | mark |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 afraid | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 afraid | cop |
| 18 | still | still | ADV | _ | 20 afraid | advmod |
| 19 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 20 afraid | advmod |
| 20 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 waved | advcl |
| 21 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 23 left | mark |
| 22 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 23 left | aux:pass |
| 23 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 afraid | advcl |
| 24 | alone | alone | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 left | xcomp |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 afraid | punct |
| 26 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 waved | nsubj |
| 27 | waved | wave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 felt | conj |
| 28 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 tail | nmod:poss |
| 29 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 waved | obj |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 token | case |
| 31 | token | token | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 waved | obl |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 consent | case |
| 33 | consent | consent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 token | nmod |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 set | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 set | cc |
| 36 | off | off | ADP | _ | 37 they | case |
| 37 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 set | obl |
| 38 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 39 set | advmod |
| 39 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres Typo=Yes VerbForm=Fin | 27 waved | conj |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 hundreds | punct |
| 41 | hundreds | hundred | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 set | obj |
| 42 | of | of | ADP | _ | 43 them | case |
| 43 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 hundreds | nmod |
| 44 | together | together | ADV | _ | 41 hundreds | advmod |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 felt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | past | the new fish | afraid property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | take | gerund | the new fish not said here | such journey | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent journey=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | past | queen | still | afraid property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | leave | gerund · passive | queen not said here | alone property | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V» | ||||
| 5 | wave | past | queen | queen's tail | in token of consent | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent tail=Patient in token=Theme | |||
| 6 | set | present | queen not said here | hundreds of hundreds | off waves = wave | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient hundred=Result |
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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