The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 33, sentence 93
Putting her safely in his breast, he passed out, followed by the screams of the birds of Bad Faith which he left behind him.
Who acts: boy, Bad Faith, birds · What happens: put, pass out, follow, leave, scream · To what, where: door, breast
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 (boy, Bad Faith, 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 | Putting | put | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 passed | advcl |
| 2 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 1 Putting | obj |
| 3 | safely | safely | ADV | _ | 1 Putting | advmod |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 breast | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 breast | nmod:poss |
| 6 | breast | breast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Putting | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Putting | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 passed | nsubj |
| 9 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | out | out | ADP | _ | 9 passed | compound:prt |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 followed | punct |
| 12 | followed | follow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 passed | advcl |
| 13 | by | by | ADP | _ | 15 screams | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 screams | det |
| 15 | screams | scream | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 followed | obl:agent |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 birds | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 birds | det |
| 18 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 screams | nmod |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 Faith | case |
| 20 | Bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 Faith | amod |
| 21 | Faith | faith | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 birds | nmod |
| 22 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 left | nsubj |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 left | nsubj |
| 24 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 Faith | acl:relcl |
| 25 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 26 him | case |
| 26 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 left | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | gerund | boy not said here | door | boy's breast | safely property | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent her=Theme in breast=Destination | ||
| 2 | pass out | past | boy | vn change_bodily_state-40.8.4 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | follow | participle | boy not said here | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | leave | past | Bad Faith | behind boy | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent behind he=Location | ||||
| 5 | scream | the birds of Bad Faith | nom scream «communication intransitive»: of=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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