The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 30, sentence 61
Sorely tempted, he longed to give them chase; but, remembering in time that he had been bidden to look neither to the right nor to the left, with a mighty effort he turned his eyes away.
Who acts: man · What happens: tempt, long, give, chase, remember, bid · To what, where: cock, man, eyes
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), 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 | Sorely | sorely | ADV | _ | 2 tempted | advmod |
| 2 | tempted | tempt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 longed | advcl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 tempted | punct |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 longed | nsubj |
| 5 | longed | long | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 give | mark |
| 7 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 longed | xcomp |
| 8 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 give | iobj |
| 9 | chase | chase | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 give | xcomp |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 bidden | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 bidden | cc |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 remembering | punct |
| 13 | remembering | remember | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 bidden | csubj:pass |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 time | case |
| 15 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 remembering | obl |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 bidden | mark |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 bidden | nsubj |
| 18 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 bidden | aux |
| 19 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 20 bidden | aux:pass |
| 20 | bidden | bid | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 longed | conj |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 look | mark |
| 22 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 bidden | xcomp |
| 23 | neither | neither | ADV | _ | 22 look | advmod |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 right | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 right | det |
| 26 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 look | obl |
| 27 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 30 left | cc |
| 28 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 left | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 left | det |
| 30 | left | left | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 right | conj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 effort | punct |
| 32 | with | with | ADP | _ | 35 effort | case |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 effort | det |
| 34 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 effort | amod |
| 35 | effort | effort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 look | obl |
| 36 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 turned | nsubj |
| 37 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 effort | acl:relcl |
| 38 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 39 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 turned | obj |
| 40 | away | away | ADV | _ | 37 turned | advmod |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 longed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tempt | participle | man not said here | sorely property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | long | past | man | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | give not said to happen | to-infinitive | man not said here | cock | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | chase | infinitive | man not said here | vn chase-51.6 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | remember | gerund | time | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | bid | past · perfect · passive | man | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | look | to-infinitive | to the right nor the left; with a mighty effort; neither property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to right=Theme | |||||
| 8 | turn away | past | man | man's eyes | away property | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Theme |
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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