The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 30, sentence 20
In a moment the words that the old man had uttered vanished from his mind and he gave chase.
Who acts: old man, wisdom · What happens: utter, vanish, give, mind · To what, where: that, mind, chase
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 (old man, wisdom), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 moment | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 moment | det |
| 3 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 words | det |
| 5 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 moment | nmod |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 uttered | obj |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 man | det |
| 8 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 man | amod |
| 9 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 uttered | nsubj |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 uttered | aux |
| 11 | uttered | utter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 words | appos |
| 12 | vanished | vanish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 uttered | xcomp |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 mind | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 mind | nmod:poss |
| 15 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 vanished | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 gave | cc |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 gave | nsubj |
| 18 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 uttered | conj |
| 19 | chase | chase | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 gave | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 moment | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | utter speech: other | past · perfect | the old man | that | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | vanish | participle | the old man not said here | wisdom's mind | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme from mind=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | give | past | wisdom | chase | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chase=Theme | ||||
| 4 | mind | wisdom | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=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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