The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 34, sentence 14
In a big forest in the north of America lived a quantity of wild animals of all sorts.
What happens: live · To what, where: quantity, big forest
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: 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 forest | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 forest | det |
| 3 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 forest | amod |
| 4 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 lived | obl |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 north | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 north | det |
| 7 | north | north | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 forest | nmod |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 America | case |
| 9 | America | America | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 north | nmod |
| 10 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 quantity | det |
| 12 | quantity | quantity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 lived | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 animals | case |
| 14 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 animals | amod |
| 15 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 quantity | nmod |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 sorts | case |
| 17 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 sorts | det |
| 18 | sorts | sort | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 animals | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | a quantity of wild animals of all sorts | a big forest in the north of America | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme quantity=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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