The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 32, sentence 63
When they arrived at the tree, they saw the handkerchief fluttering like a flag from the topmost branch, and Jose's spirits sank again.
Who acts: deeds, handkerchief, spirits · What happens: arrive, see, flutter, sink · To what, where: tree, handkerchief, topmost branch
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 (deeds, handkerchief, spirits), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 arrived | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 arrived | nsubj |
| 3 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 saw | advcl |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 tree | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 tree | det |
| 6 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 arrived | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 arrived | punct |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 saw | nsubj |
| 9 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 handkerchief | det |
| 11 | handkerchief | handkerchief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 saw | obj |
| 12 | fluttering | flutter | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 handkerchief | acl |
| 13 | like | like | ADP | _ | 15 flag | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 flag | det |
| 15 | flag | flag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 fluttering | obl |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 19 branch | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 branch | det |
| 18 | topmost | topmost | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 branch | amod |
| 19 | branch | branch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 fluttering | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 sank | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 sank | cc |
| 22 | Jose | Jose | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 spirits | nmod:poss |
| 23 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 22 Jose | case |
| 24 | spirits | spirit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 sank | nsubj |
| 25 | sank | sink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 saw | advcl |
| 26 | again | again | ADV | _ | 25 sank | advmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arrive | past | deeds = deed | the tree | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | see | past | deeds = deed | the handkerchief | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer handkerchief=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | flutter | gerund | the handkerchief not said here | the topmost branch | like a flag | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 4 | sink | past | Jose's spirits | again | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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.
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