The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 33, sentence 43
But, look, the sun is sinking to his nest in the depths of the sea, and I must go to mine.
Who acts: you, sun, I · What happens: look, sink, go · To what, where: depths, mine
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 (you, sun, I), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 look | cc |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 look | punct |
| 3 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 sinking | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 sun | det |
| 6 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sinking | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 sinking | aux |
| 8 | sinking | sink | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 look | advcl |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 nest | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 nest | nmod:poss |
| 11 | nest | nest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sinking | obl |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 depths | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 depths | det |
| 14 | depths | depth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 sinking | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 sea | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 sea | det |
| 17 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 depths | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 go | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 go | cc |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 go | nsubj |
| 21 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 go | aux |
| 22 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 look | conj |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 mine | case |
| 24 | mine | my | PRON | Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 go | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 look | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | imperative | you not said here | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | sink | present · progressive | the sun | the depths of the sea | to sun's nest | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||
| 3 | go | must | I | mine | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to my=Initial_Location |
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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