The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 32, sentence 111
One window was open, and they crept softly out and ran to the side of the river.
Who acts: One window, children · What happens: be, creep, run
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 (One window, 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 window | nummod |
| 2 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 open | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 open | cop |
| 4 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 crept | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 crept | cc |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 crept | nsubj |
| 8 | crept | creep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 open | parataxis |
| 9 | softly | softly | ADV | _ | 10 out | advmod |
| 10 | out | out | ADV | _ | 8 crept | advmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 ran | cc |
| 12 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 crept | conj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 side | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 side | det |
| 15 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 ran | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 river | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 river | det |
| 18 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 side | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 open | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | One window | open property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | creep | past | children = child | out property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | run | past | children = child not said here | to the side of the river result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to side=Result |
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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