The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 34, sentence 40
And calling to the others they proceeded to talk over the best plan.
Who acts: husband · What happens: call, proceed, talk · To what, where: others, best plan · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (husband), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 2 calling | cc |
| 2 | calling | call | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 others | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 others | det |
| 5 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 calling | obl |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 proceeded | nsubj |
| 7 | proceeded | proceed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 others | acl:relcl |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 talk | mark |
| 9 | talk | talk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 proceeded | xcomp |
| 10 | over | over | ADP | _ | 13 plan | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 plan | det |
| 12 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 13 plan | amod |
| 13 | plan | plan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 talk | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 calling | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | gerund | the others | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to other=Recipient | |||||
| 2 | proceed | past | husband | the others not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | talk | to-infinitive | husband not said here | the best plan | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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