The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 3, sentence 41
Trembling in every limb, he staggered back along the passage, and stumbled up the steps out of the tomb into the fresh air again.
Who acts: fakeer · What happens: tremble, stagger back, stumble up · To what, where: limb, passage, steps, tomb
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 | Trembling | tremble | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 staggered | advcl |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 limb | case |
| 3 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 limb | det |
| 4 | limb | limb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Trembling | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Trembling | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 staggered | nsubj |
| 7 | staggered | stagger | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | back | back | ADV | _ | 7 staggered | advmod |
| 9 | along | along | ADP | _ | 11 passage | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 passage | det |
| 11 | passage | passage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 staggered | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 stumbled | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 stumbled | cc |
| 14 | stumbled | stumble | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 staggered | conj |
| 15 | up | up | ADP | _ | 14 stumbled | compound:prt |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 steps | det |
| 17 | steps | step | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 stumbled | obj |
| 18 | out | out | ADP | _ | 21 tomb | case |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 tomb | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 tomb | det |
| 21 | tomb | tomb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 steps | nmod |
| 22 | into | into | ADP | _ | 25 air | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 air | det |
| 24 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 air | amod |
| 25 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 stumbled | obl |
| 26 | again | again | ADV | _ | 14 stumbled | advmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 staggered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tremble | gerund | fakeer not said here | every limb | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in limb=Location | ||||
| 2 | stagger back | past | fakeer | the passage | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along passage=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | stumble up | participle | fakeer not said here | the steps | the tomb | again | into the fresh air | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location step=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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