The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 30, sentence 110
At sunrise he left his bed of dried sea-weed, which had floated up with the tide, and with a grateful heart bade farewell to Doran-donn.
Who acts: donn · What happens: leave, dry, float up · To what, where: bed, dried sea weed
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 (donn), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 sunrise | case |
| 2 | sunrise | sunrise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 left | obl |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 left | nsubj |
| 4 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 bed | nmod:poss |
| 6 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 left | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 weed | case |
| 8 | dried | dry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 weed | amod |
| 9 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 weed | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 sea | punct |
| 11 | weed | weed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 left | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 floated | punct |
| 13 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 floated | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 floated | aux |
| 15 | floated | float | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 weed | acl:relcl |
| 16 | up | up | ADP | _ | 15 floated | compound:prt |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 tide | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 tide | det |
| 19 | tide | tide | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 floated | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 bade | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 bade | cc |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 bade | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 bade | det |
| 24 | grateful | grateful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 bade | amod |
| 25 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 bade | compound |
| 26 | bade | bade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 left | parataxis |
| 27 | farewell | farewell | ADV | _ | 31 donn | advmod |
| 28 | to | to | ADP | _ | 31 donn | case |
| 29 | Doran | Doran | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 donn | compound |
| 30 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 29 Doran | punct |
| 31 | donn | donn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 bade | nmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 left | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | past | donn | donn's bed | sunrise | of dried sea weed | vn leave-51.2-1 «NP V NP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme bed=Source of weed=Destination | ||
| 2 | dry | participle | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 3 | float up | past · perfect · passive | dried sea weed | with the tide | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: subject=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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