The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 30, sentence 19
Thus he spoke to himself, when his eyes fell on a golden cock and a silver hen running swiftly along the grass in front of him.
Who acts: wisdom, eyes, silver hen · What happens: speak, fall, run · To what, where: wisdom, front · 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, eyes, silver hen), 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 | Thus | thus | ADV | _ | 3 spoke | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 spoke | nsubj |
| 3 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 himself | case |
| 5 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 3 spoke | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 fell | punct |
| 7 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 fell | advmod |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 9 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 fell | nsubj |
| 10 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 spoke | conj |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 cock | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 cock | det |
| 13 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 cock | amod |
| 14 | cock | cock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 fell | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 hen | cc |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 hen | det |
| 17 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 hen | compound |
| 18 | hen | hen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 cock | conj |
| 19 | running | run | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 hen | acl |
| 20 | swiftly | swiftly | ADV | _ | 19 running | advmod |
| 21 | along | along | ADP | _ | 23 grass | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 grass | det |
| 23 | grass | grass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 running | obl |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 front | case |
| 25 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 running | obl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 him | case |
| 27 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 front | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 spoke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | past | wisdom | wisdom | thus property | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to himself=Co-Agent | |||
| 2 | fall | past | wisdom's eyes | on a golden cock and a silver hen | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on cock=Location | ||||
| 3 | run | gerund | a silver hen not said here | front of wisdom | along the grass; swiftly property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along grass=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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