The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 26, sentence 79
For many hours the sisters slept on, for they had come a long way, from a town where there was scarcely anything to eat, and felt weak and tired.
Who acts: sisters · What happens: sleep on, come, eat, feel · To what, where: long way, town
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), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 3 hours | case |
| 2 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 hours | amod |
| 3 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 slept | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 sisters | det |
| 5 | sisters | sister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 slept | nsubj |
| 6 | slept | sleep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | on | on | ADV | _ | 6 slept | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 come | punct |
| 9 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 12 come | mark |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 come | nsubj |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 come | aux |
| 12 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 slept | parataxis |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 way | det |
| 14 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 way | amod |
| 15 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 come | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 town | punct |
| 17 | from | from | ADP | _ | 19 town | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 town | det |
| 19 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 come | obl |
| 20 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 22 was | advmod |
| 21 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 22 was | expl |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 town | acl:relcl |
| 23 | scarcely | scarcely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 anything | amod |
| 24 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 22 was | nsubj |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 eat | mark |
| 26 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 anything | acl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 felt | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 felt | cc |
| 29 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 slept | conj |
| 30 | weak | weak | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 felt | xcomp |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 tired | cc |
| 32 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 weak | conj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 slept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sleep on | past | the sisters | hour | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | come | past · perfect | sisters = sister | a long way | a town | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from town=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | eat | to-infinitive | sisters = sister not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | feel | past | the sisters not said here | weak property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
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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