The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 3, sentence 86
By-and-bye they entered a wood, and right in front of them was a tree so laden with fruit that its branches swept the ground.
Who acts: rocks, tree, branches · What happens: enter, be, lade, sweep · To what, where: wood, tree, fruit, ground
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 (rocks, tree, branches), 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 | By | by | ADP | _ | 5 bye | case |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 bye | punct |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 bye | cc |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 and | punct |
| 5 | bye | bye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 entered | obl |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 entered | nsubj |
| 7 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 wood | det |
| 9 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 entered | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 right | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 right | cc |
| 12 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 tree | csubj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 front | case |
| 14 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 right | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 them | case |
| 16 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 front | nmod |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 tree | cop |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 tree | det |
| 19 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 entered | advcl |
| 20 | so | so | ADV | _ | 21 laden | advmod |
| 21 | laden | lade | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 tree | acl |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 fruit | case |
| 23 | fruit | fruit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 laden | obj |
| 24 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 27 swept | mark |
| 25 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 branches | nmod:poss |
| 26 | branches | branch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 swept | nsubj |
| 27 | swept | sweep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 fruit | advcl |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 ground | det |
| 29 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 swept | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 entered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enter | past | rocks = rock | a wood | by bye | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme wood=Destination | |||
| 2 | is a | past | rocks = rock not said here | a tree | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | lade | participle | a tree not said here | fruit | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | sweep | past | fruit's branches | the ground | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme ground=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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