The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 34, sentence 30
Not many days later the wolf's grandmother, who, with the help of her relations, had been searching for him everywhere, entered the cottage to buy some sea-urchins' eggs, and saw the skin, which she at once guessed to be that of her grandson.
Who acts: help, grandmother · What happens: search, enter, buy, see, guess, be · To what, where: cottage, eggs, skin
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 (help, grandmother), 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 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 2 many | advmod |
| 2 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 days | amod |
| 3 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 later | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 26 entered | advmod |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 wolf | det |
| 6 | wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 grandmother | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 wolf | case |
| 8 | grandmother | grandmother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 entered | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 entered | punct |
| 10 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 entered | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 help | punct |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 help | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 help | det |
| 14 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 who | nsubj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 relations | case |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 relations | nmod:poss |
| 17 | relations | relation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 searching | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 relations | punct |
| 19 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 searching | aux |
| 20 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 21 searching | aux |
| 21 | searching | search | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 help | acl |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 him | case |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 searching | obl |
| 24 | everywhere | everywhere | ADV | PronType=Tot | 21 searching | advmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 who | punct |
| 26 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 cottage | det |
| 28 | cottage | cottage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 entered | obj |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 buy | mark |
| 30 | buy | buy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 entered | advcl |
| 31 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 34 urchins | det |
| 32 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 urchins | compound |
| 33 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 32 sea | punct |
| 34 | urchins | urchin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 eggs | nmod:poss |
| 35 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 34 urchins | case |
| 36 | eggs | egg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 buy | obj |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 saw | punct |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 saw | cc |
| 39 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 entered | conj |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 skin | det |
| 41 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 saw | obj |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 guessed | punct |
| 43 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 47 guessed | obj |
| 44 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 47 guessed | nsubj |
| 45 | at | at | SCONJ | _ | 47 guessed | mark |
| 46 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 47 guessed | advmod |
| 47 | guessed | guess | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 41 skin | acl:relcl |
| 48 | to | to | PART | _ | 50 that | mark |
| 49 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 50 that | cop |
| 50 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 47 guessed | obj |
| 51 | of | of | ADP | _ | 53 grandson | case |
| 52 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 53 grandson | nmod:poss |
| 53 | grandson | grandson | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 that | nmod |
| 54 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 26 entered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | search | past · perfect · progressive | the help not said here | of help's relations; for Wolf; everywhere property | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.theme NP.location»: agent=Agent for he=Theme | ||||
| 2 | enter | past | the wolf's grandmother | the cottage | late property | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme cottage=Destination | |||
| 3 | buy | to-infinitive | the wolf's grandmother not said here | some sea urchins's eggs | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Theme | ||||
| 4 | see | past | the wolf's grandmother not said here | the skin | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer skin=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | guess | participle | grandmother | the skin | once property | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Theme | |||
| 6 | is a | to-infinitive | the skin | of help's grandson | tree rules |
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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