The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 3, sentence 38
The fakeer rose, and, making a sign to the king to follow, walked a few paces along a dark passage.
Who acts: fakeer · What happens: rise, make, follow, walk · To what, where: sign, few paces, dark passage
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 (fakeer), 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 | 3 rose | nsubj |
| 3 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 walked | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 walked | cc |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 and | punct |
| 7 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 walked | advcl |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 sign | det |
| 9 | sign | sign | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 making | obj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 king | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 king | det |
| 12 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 making | obl |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 follow | mark |
| 14 | follow | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 making | advcl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 making | punct |
| 16 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 rose | conj |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 paces | det |
| 18 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 paces | amod |
| 19 | paces | pace | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 walked | obj |
| 20 | along | along | ADP | _ | 23 passage | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 passage | det |
| 22 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 passage | amod |
| 23 | passage | passage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 walked | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 rose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rise | past | the fakeer | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | make | gerund | a sign | to the king | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset sign=Product | ||||
| 3 | follow | to-infinitive | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | walk | past | the fakeer not said here | a few paces | a dark passage | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent pace=Theme along passage=Trajectory |
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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