The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 29, sentence 94
So the mother arose and baked not one cake but two, a big one and a little one.
Who acts: mother · What happens: arise, not bake · To what, where: one cake
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 (mother), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 arose | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 mother | det |
| 3 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 arose | nsubj |
| 4 | arose | arise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 baked | cc |
| 6 | baked | bake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 arose | conj |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 baked | advmod |
| 8 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 cake | nummod |
| 9 | cake | cake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 baked | obj |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 two | cc |
| 11 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 cake | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 one | punct |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 one | det |
| 14 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 one | amod |
| 15 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 cake | conj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 one | cc |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 one | det |
| 18 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 one | amod |
| 19 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 one | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 arose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arise | past | the mother | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | not bake | past | the mother not said here | one cake and a big one and a little one | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cake=Product |
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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