The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 32, sentence 93
Inside, lying on a soft bed of cotton, were two babies, a boy and a girl, who opened their eyes and smiled at him.
Who acts: two babies, boy · What happens: lie, be, open, smile · To what, where: soft bed, boy, eyes
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 (two babies, boy), 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 | Inside | inside | ADV | _ | 3 lying | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Inside | punct |
| 3 | lying | lie | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 boy | advcl |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 bed | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 bed | det |
| 6 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 bed | amod |
| 7 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lying | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 cotton | case |
| 9 | cotton | cotton | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 bed | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 lying | punct |
| 11 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 boy | cop |
| 12 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 babies | nummod |
| 13 | babies | baby | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 boy | nsubj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 boy | punct |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 boy | det |
| 16 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 girl | cc |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 girl | det |
| 19 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 boy | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 opened | punct |
| 21 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 opened | nsubj |
| 22 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 boy | parataxis |
| 23 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 24 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 opened | obj |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 smiled | cc |
| 26 | smiled | smile | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 opened | conj |
| 27 | at | at | ADP | _ | 28 him | case |
| 28 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 smiled | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 boy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie | gerund | two babies not said here | a soft bed of cotton | inside property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on bed=Location | |||
| 2 | is a | past | two babies | a boy and a girl | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | open | past | a boy and a girl | babies's eyes | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location eye=Theme | ||||
| 4 | smile | past | a boy and a girl not said here | at bird | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=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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