The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 25, sentence 37
'Here we are at last,' cried a big fish, going down into a deep valley, for the sea has its mountains and valleys just as much as the land. '
Who acts: we, sea · What happens: be, cry, go down, have · To what, where: big fish, deep valley, mountains
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 (we, sea), 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 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Here | punct |
| 2 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | root | root |
| 3 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 last | nsubj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 last | cop |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 last | case |
| 6 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Here | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 cried | punct |
| 8 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 cried | punct |
| 9 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 Here | parataxis |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 fish | det |
| 11 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 fish | amod |
| 12 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 cried | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 going | punct |
| 14 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 cried | advcl |
| 15 | down | down | ADV | _ | 14 going | advmod |
| 16 | into | into | ADP | _ | 19 valley | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 valley | det |
| 18 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 valley | amod |
| 19 | valley | valley | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 going | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 has | punct |
| 21 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 24 has | mark |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 sea | det |
| 23 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 has | nsubj |
| 24 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 cried | conj |
| 25 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 mountains | nmod:poss |
| 26 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 has | obj |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 valleys | cc |
| 28 | valleys | valley | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 mountains | conj |
| 29 | just | just | ADV | _ | 31 much | advmod |
| 30 | as | as | ADV | _ | 31 much | advmod |
| 31 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 has | obj |
| 32 | as | as | ADP | _ | 34 land | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 land | det |
| 34 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 much | nmod |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Here | punct |
| 36 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Here | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | we | last property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | a big fish | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Topic | |||||
| 3 | go down | gerund | a deep valley | down property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 4 | have | present | the sea | sea's mountains and valleys | tree rules |
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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