The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 32, sentence 110
So next day they arose as early as the birds and stole downstairs without anybody hearing them.
Who acts: children · What happens: arise, steal, hear · To what, where: children
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (children), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 5 arose | advmod |
| 2 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 day | amod |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 arose | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 arose | nsubj |
| 5 | arose | arise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | as | as | ADV | _ | 7 early | advmod |
| 7 | early | early | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 arose | advmod |
| 8 | as | as | ADP | _ | 10 birds | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 birds | det |
| 10 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 arose | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 stole | cc |
| 12 | stole | steal | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 arose | conj |
| 13 | downstairs | downstairs | ADV | _ | 12 stole | advmod |
| 14 | without | without | ADP | _ | 15 anybody | case |
| 15 | anybody | anybody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 12 stole | obl |
| 16 | hearing | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 anybody | acl |
| 17 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 hearing | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 arose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arise | past | children = child | day | as the birds; early property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | steal | past | children = child not said here | without anybody; downstairs property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | hear | gerund | children = child | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer they=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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