The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 3, sentence 69
How Isuro the Rabbit Tricked Gudu
Who acts: Isuro · What happens: trick · To what, where: Gudu
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 (Isuro), 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 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 Tricked | advmod |
| 2 | Isuro | Isuro | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Tricked | nsubj |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Rabbit | det |
| 4 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Isuro | appos |
| 5 | Tricked | trick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | Gudu | Gudu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Tricked | obj |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | trick | past | Isuro | Gudu | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gudu=Patient |
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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