The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 26, sentence 10
And in the shape of a parrot she entered the presence of the giant.
Who acts: parrot · What happens: enter · To what, where: presence, shape
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (parrot), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 entered | cc |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 shape | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 shape | det |
| 4 | shape | shape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 entered | obl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 parrot | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 parrot | det |
| 7 | parrot | parrot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 shape | nmod |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 entered | nsubj |
| 9 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 presence | det |
| 11 | presence | presence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 entered | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 giant | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 giant | det |
| 14 | giant | giant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 presence | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 entered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enter | past | parrot | the presence of the giant | the shape of a parrot | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme presence=Destination |
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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