The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 31, sentence 79
In doing so he discovered a secret drawer, and in it lay a paper.
Who acts: wanderer · What happens: do, discover, lie · To what, where: secret drawer, paper, drawer
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 (wanderer), 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 | In | in | SCONJ | _ | 2 doing | mark |
| 2 | doing | do | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 discovered | advcl |
| 3 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 discovered | advmod |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 discovered | nsubj |
| 5 | discovered | discover | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 drawer | det |
| 7 | secret | secret | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 drawer | amod |
| 8 | drawer | drawer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 discovered | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 lay | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 lay | cc |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 it | case |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 lay | obl |
| 13 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 discovered | advcl |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 paper | det |
| 15 | paper | paper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 lay | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 discovered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | gerund | wanderer not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | discover | past | wanderer | a secret drawer | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent drawer=Topic | ||||
| 3 | lie | past | wanderer not said here | a paper | drawer | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location paper=Theme |
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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