The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 32, sentence 113
The whole of that day they went steadily on without seeing a living creature, till, in the evening, weary and footsore, they saw before them a small hut.
Who acts: whole, children · What happens: go, see · To what, where: living creature, small hut
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 (whole, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 whole | det |
| 2 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 went | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 day | case |
| 4 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 day | det |
| 5 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 went | obl |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 went | nsubj |
| 7 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | steadily | steadily | ADV | _ | 9 on | advmod |
| 9 | on | on | ADV | _ | 7 went | advmod |
| 10 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 11 seeing | mark |
| 11 | seeing | see | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 went | advcl |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 creature | det |
| 13 | living | living | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 creature | amod |
| 14 | creature | creature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 seeing | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 till | punct |
| 16 | till | till | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 creature | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 evening | punct |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 evening | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 evening | det |
| 20 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 seeing | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 weary | punct |
| 22 | weary | weary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 evening | amod |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 footsore | cc |
| 24 | footsore | footsore | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 weary | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 saw | punct |
| 26 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 saw | nsubj |
| 27 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 went | conj |
| 28 | before | before | ADP | _ | 29 them | case |
| 29 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 saw | obl |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 hut | det |
| 31 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 hut | amod |
| 32 | hut | hut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 saw | obj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the whole | day | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | see | gerund | the whole not said here | a living creature and till | evening | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer creature=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | see | past | children = child | a small hut | before till | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hut=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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