The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 29, sentence 102
Trembling with fatigue he sat himself on a rock and broke a piece off his cake.
Who acts: blessing · What happens: tremble, sit, break · To what, where: blessing, rock, piece
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (blessing), 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 | Trembling | tremble | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 sat | csubj |
| 2 | with | with | ADP | _ | 3 fatigue | case |
| 3 | fatigue | fatigue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Trembling | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 sat | nsubj |
| 5 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 5 sat | obj |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 rock | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 rock | det |
| 9 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sat | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 broke | cc |
| 11 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 sat | conj |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 piece | det |
| 13 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 broke | obj |
| 14 | off | off | ADP | _ | 16 cake | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 cake | nmod:poss |
| 16 | cake | cake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 broke | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tremble | gerund | with fatigue | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | sit | past | blessing | blessing | a rock | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme on rock=Location | |||
| 3 | break | past | blessing not said here | a piece | off blessing's cake | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent piece=Patient off cake=Co-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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