The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 30, sentence 86
He waited thus, for he could go neither forwards nor backwards, till he felt a great friendly paw laid on his shoulder.
Who acts: wind · What happens: wait, go, feel, lay · To what, where: great friendly paw, shoulder
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 (wind), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 waited | nsubj |
| 2 | waited | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 2 waited | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 go | punct |
| 5 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 8 go | mark |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 go | nsubj |
| 7 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 go | aux |
| 8 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 waited | conj |
| 9 | neither | neither | ADV | _ | 8 go | advmod |
| 10 | forwards | forwards | ADV | _ | 8 go | advmod |
| 11 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 12 backwards | cc |
| 12 | backwards | backwards | ADV | _ | 10 forwards | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 felt | punct |
| 14 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 16 felt | mark |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 felt | nsubj |
| 16 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 waited | conj |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 paw | det |
| 18 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 paw | amod |
| 19 | friendly | friendly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 paw | amod |
| 20 | paw | paw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 felt | obj |
| 21 | laid | lay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 paw | acl |
| 22 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 shoulder | case |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 shoulder | nmod:poss |
| 24 | shoulder | shoulder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 laid | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 waited | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | past | wind | thus property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | go | could | wind | forwards, neither property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | feel | past | wind | a great friendly paw | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent paw=Theme | ||||
| 4 | lay | participle | a great friendly paw not said here | wind's shoulder | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on shoulder=Destination |
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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