The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 26, sentence 116
And as she spoke she pushed them before her out of the door to the edge of a precipice, which went straight down several hundreds of feet.
Who acts: wife, precipice · What happens: speak, push, go · To what, where: thongs, door, several hundreds · Speech: someone speaks here
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, precipice), 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 | _ | 6 pushed | cc |
| 2 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 4 spoke | mark |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 spoke | nsubj |
| 4 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 pushed | advcl |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 pushed | nsubj |
| 6 | pushed | push | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 pushed | obj |
| 8 | before | before | ADP | _ | 9 her | case |
| 9 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 pushed | obl |
| 10 | out | out | ADP | _ | 13 door | case |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 door | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 door | det |
| 13 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 pushed | obl |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 edge | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 edge | det |
| 16 | edge | edge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 pushed | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 precipice | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 precipice | det |
| 19 | precipice | precipice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 edge | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 went | punct |
| 21 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 went | nsubj |
| 22 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 precipice | acl:relcl |
| 23 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 24 down | advmod |
| 24 | down | down | ADV | _ | 22 went | advmod |
| 25 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 hundreds | amod |
| 26 | hundreds | hundred | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 went | obl:unmarked |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 feet | case |
| 28 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 hundreds | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 pushed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | past | wife | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | push | past | wife | thongs = thong | the door | before voice | to the edge of a precipice | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme out door=Initial_Location to edge=Destination | |
| 3 | go | past | a precipice | several hundreds of feet | down property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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