The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 27, sentence 5
Then they picked up the frog, and all went to make another home on the other side of the great lake.
Who acts: savages · What happens: pick up, go, make · To what, where: frog, home, other side
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 (savages), 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 | 3 picked | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 picked | nsubj |
| 3 | picked | pick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 picked | compound:prt |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 frog | det |
| 6 | frog | frog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 picked | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 went | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 went | cc |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 went | advmod |
| 10 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 picked | conj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 make | mark |
| 12 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 went | xcomp |
| 13 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 14 home | det |
| 14 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 make | obj |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 side | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 side | det |
| 17 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 side | amod |
| 18 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 make | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 lake | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 lake | det |
| 21 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 lake | amod |
| 22 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 side | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 picked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pick up | past | savages = savage | the frog | then | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent frog=Topic | |||
| 2 | go | past | savages = savage not said here | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | make | to-infinitive | savages = savage not said here | another home | the other side of the great lake | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset home=Product |
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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