The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 3, sentence 104
The sun was almost setting by the time they reached their journey's end and being very tired they gladly sat down by a well.
Who acts: sun, leaves · What happens: set, reach, be, sit down, journey · To what, where: end
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sun, leaves), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 sun | det |
| 2 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 setting | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 setting | aux |
| 4 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 5 setting | advmod |
| 5 | setting | set | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 time | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 time | det |
| 8 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 setting | obl |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 reached | nsubj |
| 10 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 time | acl:relcl |
| 11 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 journey | nmod:poss |
| 12 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 end | nmod:poss |
| 13 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 12 journey | case |
| 14 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 reached | obj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 tired | cc |
| 16 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 tired | cop |
| 17 | very | very | ADV | _ | 18 tired | advmod |
| 18 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 setting | advcl |
| 19 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 sat | nsubj |
| 20 | gladly | gladly | ADV | _ | 21 sat | advmod |
| 21 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 tired | acl:relcl |
| 22 | down | down | ADP | _ | 21 sat | compound:prt |
| 23 | by | by | ADP | _ | 25 well | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 well | det |
| 25 | well | well | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 sat | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 setting | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set | past · progressive | the sun | time | almost property | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||
| 2 | reach | past | leaves = leaf | leaves's journey's end | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent end=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | gerund | the sun not said here | tired property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | sit down | past | leaves = leaf | by a well; gladly property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by well=Location | ||||
| 5 | journey | leaves = leaf | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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