The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 26, sentence 22
On and on she went, bounding over rivers and crashing through tangles till she reached the sea.
Who acts: Deer · What happens: go, bound, crash, reach · To what, where: rivers, tangles, sea
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 (Deer), 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 | On | on | SCONJ | _ | 5 went | mark |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 on | cc |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 1 On | conj |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 went | nsubj |
| 5 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 bounding | punct |
| 7 | bounding | bound | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 went | advcl |
| 8 | over | over | ADP | _ | 9 rivers | case |
| 9 | rivers | river | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 bounding | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 crashing | cc |
| 11 | crashing | crash | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 bounding | conj |
| 12 | through | through | ADP | _ | 13 tangles | case |
| 13 | tangles | tangle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 crashing | obl |
| 14 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 16 reached | mark |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 reached | nsubj |
| 16 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 crashing | advcl |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 sea | det |
| 18 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 reached | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Deer | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | bound | gerund | Deer not said here | rivers | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over river=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | crash | gerund | Deer not said here | tangles | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through tangle=Location | ||||
| 4 | reach | past | Deer | the sea | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent sea=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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