The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 27, sentence 44
The lion had reached the centre of the earth before she stopped in front of a house, lighted with lamps, and built on the edge of a lake of quicksilver.
Who acts: lion · What happens: reach, stop, light, build · To what, where: lion, front, edge
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 (lion), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 lion | det |
| 2 | lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 reached | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 reached | aux |
| 4 | reached | reach | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 centre | det |
| 6 | centre | centre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 reached | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 earth | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 earth | det |
| 9 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 centre | nmod |
| 10 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 12 stopped | mark |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 stopped | nsubj |
| 12 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 reached | advcl |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 front | case |
| 14 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 stopped | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 house | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 house | det |
| 17 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 front | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 lighted | punct |
| 19 | lighted | light | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 reached | conj |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 lamps | case |
| 21 | lamps | lamp | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 lighted | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 built | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 built | cc |
| 24 | built | build | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 reached | conj |
| 25 | on | on | ADP | _ | 27 edge | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 edge | det |
| 27 | edge | edge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 built | obl |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 lake | case |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 lake | det |
| 30 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 edge | nmod |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 quicksilver | case |
| 32 | quicksilver | quicksilver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 lake | nmod |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 reached | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | past · perfect · passive | the lion | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary centre=Theme | |||||
| 2 | stop | past | lion | front of a house | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in front=Location | ||||
| 3 | light | participle | with lamps | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent with lamp=Material | |||||
| 4 | build | participle | the edge of a lake of quicksilver | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent on edge=Source |
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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