The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 32, sentence 6
And when the loaves lay in crumbs on the road, the horse galloped on.
Who acts: loaves, horse · What happens: lay, gallop · To what, where: crumbs, road
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 (loaves, horse), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 lay | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 lay | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 loaves | det |
| 4 | loaves | loaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 lay | nsubj |
| 5 | lay | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 crumbs | case |
| 7 | crumbs | crumb | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 lay | obl |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 road | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 road | det |
| 10 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lay | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 galloped | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 horse | det |
| 13 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 galloped | nsubj |
| 14 | galloped | gallop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 road | acl:relcl |
| 15 | on | on | ADV | _ | 14 galloped | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 lay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lay | present | the loaves | crumbs | on the road | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in crumb=Destination | |||
| 2 | gallop | past | the horse | the road not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent road=Agent |
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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