The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 30, sentence 16
As he ceased speaking he touched one of the cows on her forehead, and she stepped along the path, with the two others one on each side.
Who acts: wisdom, Gorla · What happens: cease, speak, touch, step · To what, where: one, path · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (wisdom, Gorla), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 3 ceased | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 ceased | nsubj |
| 3 | ceased | cease | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | speaking | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 ceased | xcomp |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 touched | nsubj |
| 6 | touched | touch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 speaking | ccomp |
| 7 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 touched | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 cows | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 cows | det |
| 10 | cows | cow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 one | nmod |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 forehead | case |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 forehead | nmod:poss |
| 13 | forehead | forehead | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 cows | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 stepped | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 stepped | cc |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 stepped | nsubj |
| 17 | stepped | step | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 ceased | conj |
| 18 | along | along | ADP | _ | 20 path | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 path | det |
| 20 | path | path | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 stepped | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 others | punct |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 others | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 others | det |
| 24 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 25 others | nummod |
| 25 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 stepped | obl |
| 26 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 25 others | nmod |
| 27 | on | on | ADP | _ | 29 side | case |
| 28 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 29 side | det |
| 29 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 one | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ceased | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cease | past | wisdom | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | speak speech: other | gerund | wisdom not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | touch | past | wisdom | one of the cows on Gorla's forehead | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme one=Co-Theme | ||||
| 4 | step | past | Gorla | the path | with the two others one on each side | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along path=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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