The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 26, sentence 105
Then she and her sister and the boy walked on, with the great forest looming before them.
Who acts: wife, great forest · What happens: walk on, loom
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 (wife, great forest), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 walked | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 walked | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 sister | cc |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 sister | nmod:poss |
| 5 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 she | conj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 boy | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 boy | det |
| 8 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sister | conj |
| 9 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | on | on | ADV | _ | 9 walked | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 forest | punct |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 forest | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 forest | det |
| 14 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 forest | amod |
| 15 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 walked | obl |
| 16 | looming | loom | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 forest | acl |
| 17 | before | before | ADP | _ | 18 them | case |
| 18 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 looming | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 walked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk on | past | wife | then | with the great forest | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | loom | gerund | the great forest not said here | before sorts = sort | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before they=Location |
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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