The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 32, sentence 94
The man was filled with pity at the sight, and throwing down his lines he took the cradle and the babies home to his wife.
Who acts: bird · What happens: fill, throw down, take · To what, where: man, sight, lines, cradle, wife
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 (bird), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 man | det |
| 2 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 filled | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 filled | aux:pass |
| 4 | filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 pity | case |
| 6 | pity | pity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 filled | obl |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 sight | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 sight | det |
| 9 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 filled | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 took | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 took | cc |
| 12 | throwing | throw | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 took | csubj |
| 13 | down | down | ADP | _ | 12 throwing | compound:prt |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 lines | nmod:poss |
| 15 | lines | line | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 throwing | obj |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 took | nsubj |
| 17 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 filled | conj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 cradle | det |
| 19 | cradle | cradle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 took | obj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 babies | cc |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 babies | det |
| 22 | babies | baby | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 cradle | conj |
| 23 | home | home | ADV | _ | 17 took | advmod |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 wife | case |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 wife | nmod:poss |
| 26 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 took | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 filled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fill | past · passive | the man | the sight | with pity | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with pity=Instrument | |||
| 2 | throw down | gerund | bird's lines | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent line=Theme | |||||
| 3 | take | past | bird | the cradle and the babies | bird's wife | home property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent cradle=Theme to wife=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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