The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 26, sentence 41
So they all went back to earth and the queen's palace, and quite forgot the one that lay under the sea.
Who acts: scales, one · What happens: go back, forget, lie · To what, where: one, 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 (scales, one), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 went | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 went | nsubj |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 went | advmod |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | back | back | ADV | _ | 4 went | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 earth | case |
| 7 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 palace | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 queen | det |
| 10 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 palace | nmod:poss |
| 11 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 10 queen | case |
| 12 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 earth | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 forgot | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 forgot | cc |
| 15 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 16 forgot | advmod |
| 16 | forgot | forget | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | conj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 one | det |
| 18 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 forgot | obj |
| 19 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 lay | nsubj |
| 20 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 one | acl:relcl |
| 21 | under | under | ADP | _ | 23 sea | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 sea | det |
| 23 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 lay | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go back | past | scales = scale | to earth and the queen's palace result | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to earth=Result | ||||
| 2 | forget | past | scales = scale not said here | the one | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | lie | past | the one | the sea | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under sea=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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