The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 29, sentence 64
He came quickly, yes; but the frog, mounted on a greyhound, and wearing her cap on her head, went quicker still.
Who acts: king · What happens: come, mount, wear, go · To what, where: frog, cap, head
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 (king), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 came | nsubj |
| 2 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 2 came | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 yes | punct |
| 5 | yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 2 came | discourse |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 frog | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 frog | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 frog | det |
| 9 | frog | frog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 came | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 mounted | punct |
| 11 | mounted | mount | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 frog | acl |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 greyhound | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 greyhound | det |
| 14 | greyhound | greyhound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 mounted | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 wearing | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 wearing | cc |
| 17 | wearing | wear | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 came | advcl |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 cap | nmod:poss |
| 19 | cap | cap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 wearing | obj |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 head | case |
| 21 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 head | nmod:poss |
| 22 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 wearing | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 went | punct |
| 24 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 came | conj |
| 25 | quicker | quick | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 26 still | advmod |
| 26 | still | still | ADV | _ | 24 went | advmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | king | the frog | quickly property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | mount | participle | the frog not said here | on a greyhound | vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on greyhound=Destination | ||||
| 3 | wear | gerund | king not said here | greyhound's cap | greyhound's head | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent cap=Theme | |||
| 4 | go | past | king not said here | still | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/29/64/