The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 25, sentence 73
The deer reached the giant's castle quite out of breath, and her heart sank as she gazed at the tall, smooth walls which surrounded it.
Who acts: deer, heart · What happens: reach, sink, gaze, surround · To what, where: castle, breath, tall smooth walls
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 (deer, heart), 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 | 2 deer | det |
| 2 | deer | deer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 reached | nsubj |
| 3 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 giant | det |
| 5 | giant | giant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 castle | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 giant | case |
| 7 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 reached | obj |
| 8 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 11 breath | advmod |
| 9 | out | out | ADP | _ | 11 breath | case |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 breath | case |
| 11 | breath | breath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 reached | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 sank | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 sank | cc |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 heart | nmod:poss |
| 15 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 sank | nsubj |
| 16 | sank | sink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 reached | parataxis |
| 17 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 19 gazed | mark |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 gazed | nsubj |
| 19 | gazed | gaze | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 sank | advcl |
| 20 | at | at | ADP | _ | 25 walls | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 walls | det |
| 22 | tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 walls | amod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 tall | punct |
| 24 | smooth | smooth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 walls | amod |
| 25 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 gazed | obl |
| 26 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 surrounded | nsubj:pass |
| 27 | surrounded | surround | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 walls | acl |
| 28 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 surrounded | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 reached | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | past | the deer | the giant's castle | breath | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent castle=Theme | |||
| 2 | sink | past | horse's heart | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | gaze | past | heart | at the tall smooth walls | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at wall=Theme | ||||
| 4 | surround | participle · passive | the tall smooth walls | 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/25/73/