The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 25, sentence 5
But by this time the sun was high overhead, and she was just folding her net to carry it home again, when she heard a splash behind her, and looking round she saw a big fish jump into the air.
Who acts: sun, girl, big fish · What happens: be, fold, carry, hear, look round, see · To what, where: net, splash, air · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (sun, girl, big fish), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 high | cc |
| 2 | by | by | ADP | _ | 4 time | case |
| 3 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 time | det |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 high | obl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 sun | det |
| 6 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 high | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 high | cop |
| 8 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | overhead | overhead | ADV | _ | 8 high | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 folding | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 folding | cc |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 folding | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 folding | aux |
| 14 | just | just | ADV | _ | 15 folding | advmod |
| 15 | folding | fold | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 high | advcl |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 net | nmod:poss |
| 17 | net | net | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 folding | obj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 carry | mark |
| 19 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 folding | advcl |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 carry | obj |
| 21 | home | home | ADV | _ | 19 carry | advmod |
| 22 | again | again | ADV | _ | 19 carry | advmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 heard | punct |
| 24 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 26 heard | advmod |
| 25 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 heard | nsubj |
| 26 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 high | parataxis |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 splash | det |
| 28 | splash | splash | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 heard | obj |
| 29 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 30 her | case |
| 30 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 heard | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 saw | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 saw | cc |
| 33 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 36 saw | csubj |
| 34 | round | round | ADV | _ | 33 looking | advmod |
| 35 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 saw | nsubj |
| 36 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 heard | conj |
| 37 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 39 fish | det |
| 38 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 fish | amod |
| 39 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 jump | nsubj |
| 40 | jump | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 36 saw | ccomp |
| 41 | into | into | ADP | _ | 43 air | case |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 air | det |
| 43 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 jump | obl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 high | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the sun | time | high, overhead property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | fold | past · progressive | girl | girl's net | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent net=Patient | ||||
| 3 | carry | to-infinitive | girl not said here | net | again | home property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||
| 4 | hear | past | girl | a splash | behind mother | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer splash=Stimulus | |||
| 5 | look round | gerund | round property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 6 | see | past | girl | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 7 | jump | present | a big fish | into the air result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into air=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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