The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 31, sentence 42
And cutting a slender pole from a bush, he fastened a line to the end of it.
Who acts: man · What happens: cut, fasten · To what, where: slender pole, bush, line
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 (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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 fastened | cc |
| 2 | cutting | cut | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 fastened | advcl |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 pole | det |
| 4 | slender | slender | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 pole | amod |
| 5 | pole | pole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 cutting | obj |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 bush | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 bush | det |
| 8 | bush | bush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 cutting | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 cutting | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 fastened | nsubj |
| 11 | fastened | fasten | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 line | det |
| 13 | line | line | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 fastened | obj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 end | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 end | det |
| 16 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 fastened | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 it | case |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 end | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 fastened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cut | gerund | man not said here | a slender pole | a bush | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: agent=Asset pole=Product from bush=Material | |||
| 2 | fasten | past | man | a line | to the end of end | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent line=Patient to end=Co-Patient |
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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