The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 30, sentence 48
So the wife of Gorla of the Flocks baked two cakes, one large and one small; and Covan took the small one, and started on his quest.
Who acts: wife, Covan, I. · What happens: bake, take, start, quest · To what, where: two cakes, small one, quest
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 (wife, Covan, I.), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 9 baked | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 wife | det |
| 3 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 baked | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Gorla | case |
| 5 | Gorla | Gorla | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 wife | nmod |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Flocks | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Flocks | det |
| 8 | Flocks | Flock | PROPN | Number=Plur | 3 wife | nmod |
| 9 | baked | bake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 cakes | nummod |
| 11 | cakes | cake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 baked | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 large | punct |
| 13 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 large | nummod |
| 14 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 cakes | amod |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 small | cc |
| 16 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 small | nummod |
| 17 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 large | conj |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 took | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 took | cc |
| 20 | Covan | Covan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 took | nsubj |
| 21 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 baked | conj |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 one | det |
| 23 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 one | amod |
| 24 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 took | obj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 started | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 started | cc |
| 27 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 took | conj |
| 28 | on | on | ADP | _ | 30 quest | case |
| 29 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 quest | nmod:poss |
| 30 | quest | quest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 started | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 baked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bake | past | the wife of Gorla of the Flocks | two cakes | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cake=Product | ||||
| 2 | take | past | Covan | the small one | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme | ||||
| 3 | start | past | Covan not said here | I.'s quest | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | quest | I. | nom quest «cognition intransitive»: 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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