The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 3, sentence 22
The fakeer was seated on a little old bedstead reading the Koran, with his patched cloak thrown over his shoulders.
Who acts: little old bedstead · What happens: seat, read, patch, throw · To what, where: fakeer, little old bedstead, Koran, patched cloak, shoulders
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 (little old bedstead), 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 fakeer | det |
| 2 | fakeer | fakeer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 seated | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 seated | aux:pass |
| 4 | seated | seat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 bedstead | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 bedstead | det |
| 7 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 bedstead | amod |
| 8 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 bedstead | amod |
| 9 | bedstead | bedstead | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 seated | obl |
| 10 | reading | read | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 bedstead | acl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Koran | det |
| 12 | Koran | Koran | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 reading | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 cloak | punct |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 cloak | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 cloak | nmod:poss |
| 16 | patched | patch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 cloak | amod |
| 17 | cloak | cloak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 reading | obl |
| 18 | thrown | throw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 cloak | acl |
| 19 | over | over | ADP | _ | 21 shoulders | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 shoulders | nmod:poss |
| 21 | shoulders | shoulder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 thrown | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 seated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seat | past · passive | the fakeer | a little old bedstead | vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: subject=Value | ||||
| 2 | read | gerund | a little old bedstead not said here | the Koran | with King's patched cloak | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent koran=Topic | |||
| 3 | patch | participle | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | throw | participle | King's patched cloak not said here | King's shoulders | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent over shoulder=Destination |
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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