The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 32, sentence 60
Then he saw under a tree and waited, while his horse cropped the green turf.
Who acts: Jose, horse · What happens: see, wait, crop · To what, where: tree, green turf
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 (Jose, 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 saw | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 saw | nsubj |
| 3 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | under | under | ADP | _ | 6 tree | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 tree | det |
| 6 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 saw | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 waited | cc |
| 8 | waited | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 saw | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 cropped | punct |
| 10 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 13 cropped | mark |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 horse | nmod:poss |
| 12 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 cropped | nsubj |
| 13 | cropped | crop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 waited | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 turf | det |
| 15 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 turf | amod |
| 16 | turf | turf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 cropped | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | Jose | a tree | then | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | wait | past | Jose not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | crop | past | Jose's horse | the green turf | vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent turf=Patient |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/32/60/