The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 30, sentence 36
At length, when two years and two days had passed since the maiden had led her kids to feed on the mountain and had been seen no more, Ruais, second son of Gorla, rose up one morning, and said:
What happens: pass, lead, feed, see, rise up, say · To what, where: two years, length, maiden, more · 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: 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 | _ | 2 length | case |
| 2 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 passed | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 length | punct |
| 4 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 passed | advmod |
| 5 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 years | nummod |
| 6 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 passed | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 days | cc |
| 8 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 days | nummod |
| 9 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 years | conj |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 passed | aux |
| 11 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 12 | since | since | SCONJ | _ | 16 led | mark |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 maiden | det |
| 14 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 led | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 led | aux |
| 16 | led | lead | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 passed | advcl |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 kids | nmod:poss |
| 18 | kids | kid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 led | obj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 feed | mark |
| 20 | feed | feed | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 led | advcl |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 mountain | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 mountain | det |
| 23 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 feed | obl |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 seen | cc |
| 25 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 seen | aux |
| 26 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 27 seen | aux:pass |
| 27 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 passed | conj |
| 28 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 29 more | det |
| 29 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 27 seen | obj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 Ruais | punct |
| 31 | Ruais | Ruais | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 seen | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 son | punct |
| 33 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 34 son | amod |
| 34 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 Ruais | appos |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 Gorla | case |
| 36 | Gorla | Gorla | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 son | nmod |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 rose | punct |
| 38 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 passed | parataxis |
| 39 | up | up | ADP | _ | 38 rose | compound:prt |
| 40 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 41 morning | nummod |
| 41 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 rose | obl:unmarked |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 said | punct |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 said | cc |
| 44 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 rose | conj |
| 45 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | past · perfect · passive | two years and two days | length | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: subject=Theme at length=Destination | ||||
| 2 | lead | past · perfect · passive | the maiden | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | feed | to-infinitive | on the mountain | vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent on mountain=Patient | |||||
| 4 | see | past · perfect · passive | no more | Ruais obl | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: more=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | rise up | past | morning | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | say speech: assert | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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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