The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 3, sentence 117
Early next morning they started for another village, and passed on the way a large garden where people were very busy gathering monkey- nuts.
Who acts: portions, people · What happens: start, pass, be, gather · To what, where: way, monkey nuts
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 (portions, people), 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 | Early | early | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 morning | advmod |
| 2 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 morning | amod |
| 3 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 started | obl |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 started | nsubj |
| 5 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 village | case |
| 7 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 8 village | det |
| 8 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 started | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 passed | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 passed | cc |
| 11 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 started | conj |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 way | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 way | det |
| 14 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 passed | obl |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 garden | det |
| 16 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 garden | amod |
| 17 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 way | appos |
| 18 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 22 busy | advmod |
| 19 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 busy | nsubj |
| 20 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 busy | cop |
| 21 | very | very | ADV | _ | 22 busy | advmod |
| 22 | busy | busy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 garden | acl:relcl |
| 23 | gathering | gather | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 busy | advcl |
| 24 | monkey | monkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 nuts | compound |
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 monkey | punct |
| 26 | nuts | nut | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 gathering | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 started | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | start | past | portions = portion | morning | for another village | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | pass | participle | portions = portion not said here | the way | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on way=Location | ||||
| 3 | is | past | people | busy property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | gather | gerund | people not said here | monkey nuts | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nut=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.
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