The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 26, sentence 109
But sisters turned to look, and there, tied by wings and feet, and their eyes sunken, were the husbands that they sought.
Who acts: sisters, sorts · What happens: turn, look, tie, be, seek · To what, where: husbands
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 (sisters, sorts), 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 turned | cc |
| 2 | sisters | sister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 turned | nsubj |
| 3 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 look | mark |
| 5 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 turned | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 there | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 there | cc |
| 8 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 look | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 tied | punct |
| 10 | tied | tie | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 there | conj |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 wings | case |
| 12 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 tied | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 feet | cc |
| 14 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 wings | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 sunken | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 sunken | cc |
| 17 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 18 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 sunken | nsubj |
| 19 | sunken | sunken | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 turned | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 husbands | punct |
| 21 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 husbands | cop |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 husbands | det |
| 23 | husbands | husband | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 turned | obl |
| 24 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 sought | obj |
| 25 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 sought | nsubj |
| 26 | sought | seek | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 husbands | acl:relcl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | past | sisters | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | look | to-infinitive | sisters not said here | there | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | tie | participle | sisters not said here | by wings and feet | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | is a | past | the husbands | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | seek | past | sorts = sort | the husbands | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Theme |
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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