The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 30, sentence 17
As he had been bidden, behind them came Ardan son of Gorla, rejoicing in his heart that work so easy had fallen to his lot.
Who acts: Ardan son, heart, easy · What happens: bid, come, rejoice, work, fall · To what, where: wisdom, heart
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 (Ardan son, heart, easy), 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 | _ | 5 bidden | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 bidden | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 bidden | aux |
| 4 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 bidden | aux:pass |
| 5 | bidden | bid | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 came | advcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 bidden | punct |
| 7 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 8 them | case |
| 8 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 came | obl |
| 9 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | Ardan | Ardan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 son | compound |
| 11 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 came | nsubj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 Gorla | case |
| 13 | Gorla | Gorla | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 son | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 rejoicing | punct |
| 15 | rejoicing | rejoice | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 came | advcl |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 heart | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 heart | nmod:poss |
| 18 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 rejoicing | obl |
| 19 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 work | nsubj |
| 20 | work | work | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 heart | acl:relcl |
| 21 | so | so | ADV | _ | 22 easy | advmod |
| 22 | easy | easy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 fallen | nsubj |
| 23 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 fallen | aux |
| 24 | fallen | fall | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 20 work | ccomp |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 lot | case |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 lot | nmod:poss |
| 27 | lot | lot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 fallen | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bid | past · perfect · passive | wisdom | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | come | past | Ardan son of Gorla | behind cows = cow | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme behind they=Location | ||||
| 3 | rejoice | gerund | Ardan son of Gorla not said here | wisdom's heart | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | work | present | wisdom's heart | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | fall | past · perfect | easy | to wisdom's lot | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to lot=Theme |
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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