The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 27, sentence 31
In one hand she held a club on which she leaned, and in the other a quiver full of arrows.
Who acts: queen · What happens: hold, learn · To what, where: club, one hand
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 (queen), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 hand | case |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 hand | nummod |
| 3 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 held | obl |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 held | nsubj |
| 5 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 club | det |
| 7 | club | club | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 held | obj |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 which | case |
| 9 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 leaned | obl |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 leaned | nsubj |
| 11 | leaned | learn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 club | acl:relcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 quiver | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 quiver | cc |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 other | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 other | det |
| 16 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 quiver | amod |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 quiver | det |
| 18 | quiver | quiver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 held | obl |
| 19 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 quiver | amod |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 arrows | case |
| 21 | arrows | arrow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 full | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 held | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold | past | queen | a club | one hand | a other quiver obl | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent club=Theme in hand=Location | ||
| 2 | learn | past | queen | a club | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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