The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 28, sentence 30
The way they played their game was to let Muffette creep close to the frog, and then for the frog to bound high into the air and alight on the child's head, or back, or legs, when she always sent up a shout of pleasure.
Who acts: eyes, game, frog · What happens: play, be, creep, bound, send up, shout · To what, where: way, air, shout, pleasure
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eyes, game, frog), 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 way | det |
| 2 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 played | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 played | nsubj |
| 4 | played | play | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 game | nmod:poss |
| 6 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 let | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 let | cop |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 let | mark |
| 9 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 played | ccomp |
| 10 | Muffette | Muffette | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 let | obj |
| 11 | creep | creep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 let | xcomp |
| 12 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 creep | xcomp |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 frog | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 frog | det |
| 15 | frog | frog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 close | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 frog | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 frog | cc |
| 18 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 21 frog | advmod |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 frog | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 frog | det |
| 21 | frog | frog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 played | obl |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 bound | mark |
| 23 | bound | bound | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 frog | acl |
| 24 | high | high | ADV | Degree=Pos | 23 bound | advmod |
| 25 | into | into | ADP | _ | 27 air | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 air | det |
| 27 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 bound | obl |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 alight | cc |
| 29 | alight | alight | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 air | conj |
| 30 | on | on | ADP | _ | 34 head | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 child | det |
| 32 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 head | nmod:poss |
| 33 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 32 child | case |
| 34 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 bound | obl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 back | punct |
| 36 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 37 back | cc |
| 37 | back | back | ADV | _ | 4 played | advmod |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 legs | punct |
| 39 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 40 legs | cc |
| 40 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 played | obl |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 sent | punct |
| 42 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 45 sent | mark |
| 43 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 45 sent | nsubj |
| 44 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 45 sent | advmod |
| 45 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 played | conj |
| 46 | up | up | ADP | _ | 45 sent | compound:prt |
| 47 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 48 shout | det |
| 48 | shout | shout | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 sent | obj |
| 49 | of | of | ADP | _ | 50 pleasure | case |
| 50 | pleasure | pleasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 shout | nmod |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 played | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | play | past | eyes = eye | the way | for the frog; legs obl | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | is | past | eyes's game | let property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | creep | infinitive | eyes's game not said here | close property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | bound | to-infinitive | eyes = eye not said here | the air | on the child's head; high property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into air=Destination | |||
| 5 | send up | past | frog | a shout of pleasure | always property | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shout=Theme | |||
| 6 | shout | pleasure | nom shout «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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