The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 33, sentence 102
They got ready weapons that were sharpened, and weapons that were poisoned; they sent for eagles and falcons to hunt her down, and constructed cages and boxes in which to shut her up if they were not able to kill her.
Who acts: birds · What happens: get, sharpen, poison, send, hunt down, construct · To what, where: ready weapons, weapons, news, cages
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (birds), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 got | nsubj |
| 2 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 weapons | amod |
| 4 | weapons | weapon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 got | obj |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 sharpened | nsubj |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 sharpened | aux:pass |
| 7 | sharpened | sharpen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 weapons | acl:relcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 poisoned | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 poisoned | cc |
| 10 | weapons | weapon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 poisoned | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 poisoned | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 poisoned | aux:pass |
| 13 | poisoned | poison | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 got | conj |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 sent | punct |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 sent | nsubj |
| 16 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 got | conj |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 eagles | case |
| 18 | eagles | eagle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 sent | obl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 falcons | cc |
| 20 | falcons | falcon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 eagles | conj |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 hunt | mark |
| 22 | hunt | hunt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 sent | advcl |
| 23 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 hunt | obj |
| 24 | down | down | ADP | _ | 22 hunt | compound:prt |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 constructed | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 constructed | cc |
| 27 | constructed | construct | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 got | conj |
| 28 | cages | cage | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 constructed | obj |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 boxes | cc |
| 30 | boxes | box | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 cages | conj |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 which | case |
| 32 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 constructed | obj |
| 33 | to | to | PART | _ | 34 shut | mark |
| 34 | shut | shut | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 constructed | advcl |
| 35 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 shut | obj |
| 36 | up | up | ADP | _ | 34 shut | compound:prt |
| 37 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 41 able | mark |
| 38 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 able | nsubj |
| 39 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 41 able | cop |
| 40 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 41 able | advmod |
| 41 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 shut | advcl |
| 42 | to | to | PART | _ | 43 kill | mark |
| 43 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 41 able | xcomp |
| 44 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 kill | obj |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | birds = bird | ready weapons | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer weapon=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | sharpen | past · passive | ready weapons | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 3 | poison | past · passive | weapons | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 4 | send | past | birds = bird | for eagles and falcons | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | hunt down | to-infinitive | birds = bird not said here | news | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | ||||
| 6 | construct | past | birds = bird not said here | cages and boxes | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | shut up | to-infinitive | birds = bird not said here | news | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient | ||||
| 8 | not is a condition, not said to happen | past | birds = bird | able property | tree rules | ||||
| 9 | kill | to-infinitive | birds = bird not said here | news | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme |
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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