The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 3, sentence 71
Now one of the friends was a big white rabbit named Isuro, and the other was a tall baboon called Gudu, and so fond were they of each other that they were seldom seen apart.
Who acts: one, other · What happens: be, name, call, see · To what, where: big white rabbit, tall baboon, friends · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (one, other), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 one | advmod |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 rabbit | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 friends | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 friends | det |
| 5 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 one | nmod |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 rabbit | cop |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 rabbit | det |
| 8 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 rabbit | amod |
| 9 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 rabbit | amod |
| 10 | rabbit | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 11 | named | name | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 rabbit | acl |
| 12 | Isuro | Isuro | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 named | xcomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 baboon | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 baboon | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 other | det |
| 16 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 baboon | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 baboon | cop |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 baboon | det |
| 19 | tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 baboon | amod |
| 20 | baboon | baboon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 rabbit | conj |
| 21 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 baboon | acl |
| 22 | Gudu | Gudu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 called | xcomp |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 fond | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 fond | cc |
| 25 | so | so | ADV | _ | 26 fond | advmod |
| 26 | fond | fond | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 rabbit | conj |
| 27 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 each | cop |
| 28 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 each | nsubj |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 each | case |
| 30 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 26 fond | obl |
| 31 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 each | fixed |
| 32 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 36 seen | mark |
| 33 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 seen | nsubj |
| 34 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 seen | aux:pass |
| 35 | seldom | seldom | ADV | _ | 36 seen | advmod |
| 36 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 fond | advcl |
| 37 | apart | apart | ADV | _ | 36 seen | advmod |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 rabbit | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | one of the friends | a big white rabbit and a tall baboon | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | name | participle | a big white rabbit and a tall baboon not said here | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a | past | the other | a tall baboon | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | call | participle | a tall baboon not said here | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | be | one of the friends not said here | of each | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | see | past · passive | friends = friend | apart, seldom property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |
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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