The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 34, sentence 19
There, just as he had hoped, he saw the chief mink fishing in a canoe.
Who acts: river · What happens: hope, see · To what, where: chief mink fishing, canoe
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 (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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 10 saw | expl |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 saw | punct |
| 3 | just | just | ADV | _ | 10 saw | advmod |
| 4 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 7 hoped | mark |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 hoped | nsubj |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 hoped | aux |
| 7 | hoped | hope | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 saw | advcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 hoped | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 saw | nsubj |
| 10 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 fishing | det |
| 12 | chief | chief | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 fishing | amod |
| 13 | mink | mink | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 fishing | amod |
| 14 | fishing | fishing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 saw | obj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 canoe | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 canoe | det |
| 17 | canoe | canoe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 fishing | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hope | past · perfect | river | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 2 | see | past | river | the chief mink fishing | a canoe; there | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fishing=Stimulus |
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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