The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 32, sentence 61
'Look there!' said the animal, suddenly raising its head; and Jose looked behind him and saw a little mountain of bran, which he put into a bag that was hung over his saddle.
Who acts: Jose, bran · What happens: look, say, raise, see, put, hang · To what, where: animal, head, little mountain, bag, saddle · Speech: someone speaks here
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, bran), 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 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Look | punct |
| 2 | Look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 said | ccomp |
| 3 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 Look | advmod |
| 4 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Look | punct |
| 5 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Look | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 animal | det |
| 8 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 raising | punct |
| 10 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 11 raising | advmod |
| 11 | raising | raise | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 said | advcl |
| 12 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 head | nmod:poss |
| 13 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 raising | obj |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 looked | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 looked | cc |
| 16 | Jose | Jose | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 looked | nsubj |
| 17 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 said | parataxis |
| 18 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 19 him | case |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 looked | obl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 saw | cc |
| 21 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 looked | conj |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 mountain | det |
| 23 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 mountain | amod |
| 24 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 saw | obj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 bran | case |
| 26 | bran | bran | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 mountain | nmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 put | punct |
| 28 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 30 put | nsubj:outer |
| 29 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 put | nsubj |
| 30 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 bran | acl:relcl |
| 31 | into | into | ADP | _ | 33 bag | case |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 bag | det |
| 33 | bag | bag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 put | obl |
| 34 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 36 hung | nsubj:pass |
| 35 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 hung | aux:pass |
| 36 | hung | hang | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 33 bag | acl:relcl |
| 37 | over | over | ADP | _ | 39 saddle | case |
| 38 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 saddle | nmod:poss |
| 39 | saddle | saddle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 hung | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | infinitive | there | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the animal | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | raise | gerund | animal's head | suddenly property | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Theme | ||||
| 4 | look | past | Jose | behind heart | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent behind he=Theme | ||||
| 5 | see | past | Jose not said here | a little mountain of bran | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mountain=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | put | past | bran | a bag | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 7 | hang | past · passive | a bag | Jose's saddle | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme over saddle=Destination |
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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