The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 30, sentence 95
All that day they walked, and when night fell they were in a barren plain, with only rocks for shelter.
Who acts: Covan, night · What happens: walk, fall, be · To what, where: barren plain
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 (Covan, night), 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 day | det:predet |
| 2 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 day | det |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 walked | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 walked | nsubj |
| 5 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 fell | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 fell | cc |
| 8 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 fell | advmod |
| 9 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 fell | nsubj |
| 10 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 walked | conj |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 plain | nsubj |
| 12 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 plain | cop |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 plain | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 plain | det |
| 15 | barren | barren | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 plain | amod |
| 16 | plain | plain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 fell | ccomp |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 rocks | punct |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 rocks | case |
| 19 | only | only | ADV | _ | 20 rocks | advmod |
| 20 | rocks | rock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 plain | conj |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 shelter | case |
| 22 | shelter | shelter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 rocks | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 walked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | past | Covan | day | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | fall | past | night | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is | past | Covan | a barren plain and rocks for shelter | tree rules |
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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