The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 29, sentence 105
And he stretched himself out for a few moments, then rose to his feet again.
Who acts: blessing · What happens: stretch out, rise · To what, where: blessing, feet
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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 stretched | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 stretched | nsubj |
| 3 | stretched | stretch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 3 stretched | obj |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 3 stretched | compound:prt |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 moments | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 moments | det |
| 8 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 moments | amod |
| 9 | moments | moment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 stretched | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 rose | punct |
| 11 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 rose | advmod |
| 12 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 stretched | conj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 feet | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 feet | nmod:poss |
| 15 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 rose | obl |
| 16 | again | again | ADV | _ | 12 rose | advmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 stretched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stretch out | past | blessing | blessing | moment | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent himself=Patient | |||
| 2 | rise | past | blessing not said here | blessing's feet | then; again | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to foot=Initial_Location |
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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