The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 26, sentence 106
But they had by this time come far and were very tired, and felt glad enough to see some smoke curling up from a little hut in front of them.
Who acts: sorts, smoke · What happens: have, come, be, feel, see, curl up · To what, where: smoke, little hut
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 (sorts, smoke), 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 | _ | 3 had | cc |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 had | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 6 time | case |
| 5 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 time | det |
| 6 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 come | obl |
| 7 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 had | parataxis |
| 8 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 come | advmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 tired | cc |
| 10 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 tired | cop |
| 11 | very | very | ADV | _ | 12 tired | advmod |
| 12 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 come | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 felt | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 felt | cc |
| 15 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 had | conj |
| 16 | glad | glad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 felt | xcomp |
| 17 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 16 glad | advmod |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 see | mark |
| 19 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 glad | advcl |
| 20 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 21 smoke | det |
| 21 | smoke | smoke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 see | obj |
| 22 | curling | curl | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 21 smoke | acl |
| 23 | up | up | ADV | _ | 22 curling | advmod |
| 24 | from | from | ADP | _ | 27 hut | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 hut | det |
| 26 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 hut | amod |
| 27 | hut | hut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 curling | obl |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 front | case |
| 29 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 hut | nmod |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 them | case |
| 31 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 front | nmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | sorts = sort | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | come | present | time | far property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | past | tired property | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | feel | past | sorts = sort not said here | glad property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | see | to-infinitive | sorts = sort not said here | some smoke | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer smoke=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | curl up | gerund | some smoke not said here | a little hut in front of sorts | vn coil-9.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from hut=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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