The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 26, sentence 5
And sure enough a toad she was, and off she set in search of the starry crown.
Who acts: Toad · What happens: set, search · To what, where: search, starry crown
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 (Toad), 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 | _ | 2 sure | cc |
| 2 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 3 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 2 sure | advmod |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 toad | det |
| 5 | toad | toad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sure | nsubj |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 was | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 toad | acl:relcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 set | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 set | cc |
| 10 | off | off | ADP | _ | 12 set | mark |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 set | nsubj |
| 12 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 sure | conj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 search | case |
| 14 | search | search | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 set | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 crown | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 crown | det |
| 17 | starry | starry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 crown | amod |
| 18 | crown | crown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 search | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 sure | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set | infinitive | Toad | search of the starry crown | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in search=Destination | ||||
| 2 | search | the starry crown | nom search «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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