The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 25, sentence 86
On hearing these words the giant leapt out of bed with an angry roar, and sprang at the parrot in order to wring her neck with his great hands.
What happens: hear, spring, wring · To what, where: words, bed, order, neck
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: 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 | On | on | SCONJ | _ | 2 hearing | mark |
| 2 | hearing | hear | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 sprang | advcl |
| 3 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 4 words | det |
| 4 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 hearing | obj |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 leapt | det |
| 6 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 leapt | amod |
| 7 | leapt | leapt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 hearing | obj |
| 8 | out | out | ADP | _ | 10 bed | case |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 bed | case |
| 10 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 hearing | obl |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 roar | case |
| 12 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 roar | det |
| 13 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 roar | amod |
| 14 | roar | roar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 hearing | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 sprang | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 sprang | cc |
| 17 | sprang | spring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | at | at | ADP | _ | 20 parrot | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 parrot | det |
| 20 | parrot | parrot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 sprang | obl |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 order | case |
| 22 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 sprang | obl |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 wring | mark |
| 24 | wring | wring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 sprang | advcl |
| 25 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 neck | nmod:poss |
| 26 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 wring | obj |
| 27 | with | with | ADP | _ | 30 hands | case |
| 28 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 hands | nmod:poss |
| 29 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 hands | amod |
| 30 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 wring | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 sprang | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | gerund | this words | bed | with a angry roar | tree rules | |||
| 2 | spring | past | order | at the parrot | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at parrot=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | wring | to-infinitive | Monkey's neck | with Parrot's great hands | vn touch-20 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent neck=Experiencer with hand=Instrument |
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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