The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 28, sentence 56
Next came the water-rats, dressed as pages, and lastly the frog herself, in a litter borne by eight toads, and made of tortoiseshell.
Who acts: water rats · What happens: come, dress, bear, make · To what, where: litter, water rats
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 (water rats), 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 | Next | next | ADV | _ | 2 came | advmod |
| 2 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 rats | det |
| 4 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 rats | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 water | punct |
| 6 | rats | rat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 came | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 dressed | punct |
| 8 | dressed | dress | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 rats | acl |
| 9 | as | as | ADP | _ | 10 pages | case |
| 10 | pages | page | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 dressed | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 lastly | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 lastly | cc |
| 13 | lastly | lastly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 came | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 frog | det |
| 15 | frog | frog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 lastly | conj |
| 16 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 15 frog | nmod:unmarked |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 litter | punct |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 litter | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 litter | det |
| 20 | litter | litter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 came | obl |
| 21 | borne | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 litter | acl |
| 22 | by | by | ADP | _ | 24 toads | case |
| 23 | eight | eight | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 24 toads | nummod |
| 24 | toads | toad | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 borne | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 made | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 made | cc |
| 27 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 came | parataxis |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 tortoiseshell | case |
| 29 | tortoiseshell | tortoiseshell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 made | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the water rats | a litter | next property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in litter=Location | |||
| 2 | dress | participle | the water rats not said here | as pages | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | bear | participle | a litter not said here | by eight toads | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | make | participle | of tortoiseshell | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
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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