The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 30, sentence 109
And Covan went with him thankfully, and ate and rested, and laid aside three-thirds of his weariness.
Who acts: Covan · What happens: go, eat, rest, lay
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Covan), 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 went | cc |
| 2 | Covan | Covan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 him | case |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | obl |
| 6 | thankfully | thankfully | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 ate | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 ate | cc |
| 9 | ate | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 rested | cc |
| 11 | rested | rest | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 ate | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 laid | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 laid | cc |
| 14 | laid | lay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 went | conj |
| 15 | aside | aside | ADV | _ | 14 laid | advmod |
| 16 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 thirds | nummod |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 three | punct |
| 18 | thirds | third | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 aside | conj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 weariness | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 weariness | nmod:poss |
| 21 | weariness | weariness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 thirds | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Covan | with donn; thankfully property | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with he=Beneficiary | ||||
| 2 | eat | past | Covan not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | rest | past | Covan not said here | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | lay | participle | Covan not said here | aside property | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=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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