The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 30, sentence 18
At the year's end, thought he, enough money would lie in his pocket to carry him into far countries where his sister might be, and, in the meanwhile, someone might come past who could give him tidings of her.
Who acts: wisdom, meanwhile · What happens: think, lie, carry, come, give · To what, where: end, pocket, wisdom, far countries, tidings · 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, meanwhile), 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 | _ | 5 end | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 year | det |
| 3 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 end | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 year | case |
| 5 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 thought | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 end | punct |
| 7 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 lie | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 lie | punct |
| 10 | enough | enough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 money | amod |
| 11 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 lie | nsubj |
| 12 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 lie | aux |
| 13 | lie | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 thought | ccomp |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 pocket | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 pocket | nmod:poss |
| 16 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 lie | obl | ||
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 carry | mark |
| 18 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 lie | advcl |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 carry | obj |
| 20 | into | into | ADP | _ | 22 countries | case |
| 21 | far | far | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 countries | amod |
| 22 | countries | country | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 carry | obl |
| 23 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 27 be | advmod |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 sister | nmod:poss |
| 25 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 be | nsubj |
| 26 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 be | aux |
| 27 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 22 countries | acl:relcl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 come | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 come | cc |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 meanwhile | punct |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 33 meanwhile | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 meanwhile | det |
| 33 | meanwhile | meanwhile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 come | nsubj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 meanwhile | punct |
| 35 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 37 come | nsubj |
| 36 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 37 come | aux |
| 37 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 thought | conj |
| 38 | past | past | ADP | _ | 41 give | mark |
| 39 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 41 give | nsubj |
| 40 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 41 give | aux |
| 41 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 37 come | advcl |
| 42 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 give | iobj |
| 43 | tidings | tiding | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 give | obj |
| 44 | of | of | ADP | _ | 45 her | case |
| 45 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 tidings | nmod |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | at the year's end | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | lie | would | wisdom | wisdom's pocket | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in pocket=Location | ||||
| 3 | carry | to-infinitive | wisdom not said here | wisdom | far countries | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||
| 4 | come | might | the meanwhile | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | give | could | tidings of meanwhile | wisdom | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient tiding=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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