The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 27, sentence 2
Then the other brought a huge stone, and, in short, there was an end of the witch.
Who acts: other, end · What happens: bring, be · To what, where: huge stone, short
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (other, end), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 brought | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 other | det |
| 3 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 brought | nsubj |
| 4 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 stone | det |
| 6 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 stone | amod |
| 7 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 brought | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 was | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 was | cc |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 and | punct |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 short | case |
| 12 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 was | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 short | punct |
| 14 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 15 was | expl |
| 15 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 brought | conj |
| 16 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 end | det |
| 17 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 was | nsubj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 witch | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 witch | det |
| 20 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 end | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 brought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | past | the other | a huge stone | then | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent stone=Theme | |||
| 2 | be | past | a end of the witch | short; there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in short=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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