The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 31, sentence 65
For some time the son who stayed at home spent his father's wealth freely, believing that he alone remained to enjoy it.
Who acts: son · What happens: stay, spend, believe, remain, enjoy · To what, where: home, wealth · 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 (son), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 3 time | case |
| 2 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 spent | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 son | det |
| 5 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 spent | nsubj |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 stayed | nsubj |
| 7 | stayed | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 son | acl:relcl |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 home | case |
| 9 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stayed | obl |
| 10 | spent | spend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 father | nmod:poss |
| 12 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 wealth | nmod:poss |
| 13 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 12 father | case |
| 14 | wealth | wealth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 spent | obj |
| 15 | freely | freely | ADV | _ | 10 spent | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 believing | punct |
| 17 | believing | believe | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 spent | advcl |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 remained | mark |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 remained | nsubj |
| 20 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 21 remained | advmod |
| 21 | remained | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 believing | ccomp |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 enjoy | mark |
| 23 | enjoy | enjoy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 remained | xcomp |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 enjoy | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 spent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stay | past | the son | home | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at home=Location | ||||
| 2 | spend | past | the son | son's father's wealth | time | freely property | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wealth=Asset | ||
| 3 | believe | gerund | the son not said here | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | remain | past | son | alone property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | enjoy | to-infinitive | son not said here | wealth | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
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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