The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 31, sentence 125
Jose did as he was told, and being in a great hurry to get away, asked no questions, but swung himself into the saddle.
Who acts: Jose · What happens: do, tell, be, get away, ask, swing · To what, where: Jose, great hurry, questions, saddle · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Jose), 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 | Jose | Jose | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 did | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 6 told | mark |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 told | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 told | aux:pass |
| 6 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 did | advcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 hurry | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 hurry | cc |
| 9 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 hurry | cop |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 hurry | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 hurry | det |
| 12 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 hurry | amod |
| 13 | hurry | hurry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 told | obl |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 get | mark |
| 15 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 hurry | acl |
| 16 | away | away | ADV | _ | 15 get | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 asked | punct |
| 18 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 did | parataxis |
| 19 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 20 questions | det |
| 20 | questions | question | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 asked | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 swung | punct |
| 22 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 23 swung | cc |
| 23 | swung | swing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 did | conj |
| 24 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 23 swung | obj |
| 25 | into | into | ADP | _ | 27 saddle | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 saddle | det |
| 27 | saddle | saddle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 swung | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | Jose | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past · passive | Jose | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | |||||
| 3 | is | gerund | a great hurry | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | get away | to-infinitive | away property | vn withdraw-82-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | ask speech: ask | past | no questions | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent question=Recipient | |||||
| 6 | swing | past | Jose not said here | Jose | the saddle | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent himself=Theme into saddle=Trajectory |
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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