The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 34, sentence 18
He trotted along quite happily through the forest till he came to a favourite place of his, just where the river runs into the sea.
Who acts: Wolf, river · What happens: trot, come, run · To what, where: forest, favourite place, sea
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 (Wolf, river), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 trotted | nsubj |
| 2 | trotted | trot | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | along | along | ADV | _ | 2 trotted | advmod |
| 4 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 5 happily | advmod |
| 5 | happily | happily | ADV | _ | 2 trotted | advmod |
| 6 | through | through | ADP | _ | 8 forest | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 forest | det |
| 8 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 trotted | obl |
| 9 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 11 came | mark |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 came | nsubj |
| 11 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 trotted | advcl |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 place | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 place | det |
| 14 | favourite | favourite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 place | amod |
| 15 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 came | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 his | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 place | acl:relcl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 runs | punct |
| 19 | just | just | ADV | _ | 23 runs | advmod |
| 20 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 23 runs | advmod |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 river | det |
| 22 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 runs | nsubj |
| 23 | runs | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 came | parataxis |
| 24 | into | into | ADP | _ | 26 sea | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 sea | det |
| 26 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 runs | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 trotted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | trot | past | Wolf | the forest | along, happily property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through forest=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | come | past | Wolf | a favourite place | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to place=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | run | present | the river | into the sea result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into sea=Result |
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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