The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 29, sentence 16
Flinging off his helmet, he shouted to them with all his might.
Who acts: wickedness · What happens: fling off, shout · To what, where: helmet, walls
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 (wickedness), 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 | Flinging | fling | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 shouted | advcl |
| 2 | off | off | ADP | _ | 1 Flinging | compound:prt |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 helmet | nmod:poss |
| 4 | helmet | helmet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Flinging | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Flinging | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 shouted | nsubj |
| 7 | shouted | shout | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 them | case |
| 9 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 shouted | obl |
| 10 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 13 might | mark |
| 11 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 might | det:predet |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 might | nmod:poss |
| 13 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 shouted | advcl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 shouted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fling off | gerund | wickedness not said here | wickedness's helmet | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent helmet=Theme | ||||
| 2 | shout speech: express | past | wickedness | walls = wall | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to they=Recipient |
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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