The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 30, sentence 60
On the way he saw the gold cock and silver hen, which ran even closer to him than they had done to his brothers.
Who acts: man, silver hen, cock · What happens: see, run, do · To what, where: gold cock, way
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 (man, silver hen, cock), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 way | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 way | det |
| 3 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 saw | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 saw | nsubj |
| 5 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 cock | det |
| 7 | gold | gold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 cock | amod |
| 8 | cock | cock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 saw | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 hen | cc |
| 10 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 hen | compound |
| 11 | hen | hen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 cock | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 ran | punct |
| 13 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 ran | nsubj |
| 14 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 hen | acl:relcl |
| 15 | even | even | ADV | _ | 16 closer | advmod |
| 16 | closer | close | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 14 ran | parataxis |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 him | case |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 closer | obl |
| 19 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 22 done | mark |
| 20 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 done | nsubj |
| 21 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 done | aux |
| 22 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 closer | advcl |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 brothers | case |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 25 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 done | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | man | the gold cock and silver hen | the way | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cock=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | run | past | silver hen | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | do | past · perfect | cock | to man's brothers | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: 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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