The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 34, sentence 106
The wood floated on, and the river got bigger and bigger and entered a new country.
Who acts: wood · What happens: float on, get, enter · To what, where: wood, new country
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wood), 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 wood | det |
| 2 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 got | nsubj |
| 3 | floated | float | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 wood | acl |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 3 floated | compound:prt |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 got | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 got | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 river | det |
| 8 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 got | nsubj |
| 9 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | bigger | big | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 9 got | xcomp |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 bigger | cc |
| 12 | bigger | big | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 10 bigger | conj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 entered | cc |
| 14 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 got | conj |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 country | det |
| 16 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 country | amod |
| 17 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 entered | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | float on | participle | the wood not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | get | past | the wood | big property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | enter | past | the wood not said here | a new country | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme country=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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/34/106/