The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 3, sentence 67
And he turned and left the hall without a word, and went into the jungle, where he lived for twenty-five years a life of prayer and meditations, until at last the Angel of Death came to him, and mercifully released him, purged and purified through his punishment.
Who acts: man, last · What happens: turn, leave, go, live, come, release · To what, where: hall, jungle, man, punishment
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 (man, last), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 turned | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 turned | nsubj |
| 3 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 left | cc |
| 5 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 turned | conj |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 hall | det |
| 7 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 left | obj |
| 8 | without | without | ADP | _ | 10 word | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 word | det |
| 10 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 left | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 went | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 went | cc |
| 13 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 turned | conj |
| 14 | into | into | ADP | _ | 16 jungle | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 jungle | det |
| 16 | jungle | jungle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 went | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 lived | punct |
| 18 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 20 lived | advmod |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 lived | nsubj |
| 20 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 went | conj |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 years | case |
| 22 | twenty | twenty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 24 five | compound |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 twenty | punct |
| 24 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 25 years | nummod |
| 25 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 lived | obl |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 life | det |
| 27 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 years | nmod:unmarked |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 prayer | case |
| 29 | prayer | prayer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 life | nmod |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 meditations | cc |
| 31 | meditations | meditation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 prayer | conj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 came | punct |
| 33 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 40 came | mark |
| 34 | at | at | ADP | _ | 35 last | case |
| 35 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 came | nsubj |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 Angel | det |
| 37 | Angel | Angel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 last | obl |
| 38 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 Death | case |
| 39 | Death | Death | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 Angel | nmod |
| 40 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 lived | conj |
| 41 | to | to | ADP | _ | 42 him | case |
| 42 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 came | obl |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 released | punct |
| 44 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 released | cc |
| 45 | mercifully | mercifully | ADV | _ | 46 released | advmod |
| 46 | released | release | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 turned | conj |
| 47 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 46 released | obj |
| 48 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 49 purged | punct |
| 49 | purged | purge | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 46 released | conj |
| 50 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 51 purified | cc |
| 51 | purified | purify | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 49 purged | conj |
| 52 | through | through | ADP | _ | 54 punishment | case |
| 53 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 54 punishment | nmod:poss |
| 54 | punishment | punishment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 51 purified | obl |
| 55 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | past | man | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | leave | past | man not said here | the hall | without a word | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hall=Theme | |||
| 3 | go | past | man not said here | the jungle | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into jungle=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | live | past | man | year | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | come | past | last | man | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to he=Initial_Location | ||||
| 6 | release | past | man not said here | man | mercifully property | vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Causer he=Source | |||
| 7 | purge | participle | man not said here | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 8 | purify | participle | man not said here | man's punishment | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 9 | punish | man | nom punishment «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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