The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 34, sentence 41
It took them a long time to make up their minds, as one wolf proposed one thing and one another; but at last it was agreed that the old wolf should give a great feast in his house, and that the mink should be invited to the party.
Who acts: It, one wolf, old wolf, husband · What happens: take, make up, propose, agree, give, invite · To what, where: husband, minds, one thing, thing, last, great feast
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 (It, one wolf, old wolf, 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 took | nsubj |
| 2 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 took | obj |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 time | det |
| 5 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 time | amod |
| 6 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 took | obj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 make | mark |
| 8 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 took | advcl |
| 9 | up | up | ADP | _ | 8 make | compound:prt |
| 10 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 minds | nmod:poss |
| 11 | minds | mind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 make | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 proposed | punct |
| 13 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 16 proposed | mark |
| 14 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 wolf | nummod |
| 15 | wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 proposed | nsubj |
| 16 | proposed | propose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 took | conj |
| 17 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 thing | nummod |
| 18 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 proposed | obj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 one | cc |
| 20 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 thing | appos |
| 21 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 20 one | fixed |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 agreed | punct |
| 23 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 28 agreed | cc |
| 24 | at | at | ADP | _ | 25 last | case |
| 25 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 agreed | obl |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 agreed | nsubj:pass |
| 27 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 agreed | aux:pass |
| 28 | agreed | agree | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 took | conj |
| 29 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 34 give | mark |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 wolf | det |
| 31 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 wolf | amod |
| 32 | wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 give | nsubj |
| 33 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 34 give | aux |
| 34 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 agreed | xcomp |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 feast | det |
| 36 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 feast | amod |
| 37 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 give | obj |
| 38 | in | in | ADP | _ | 40 house | case |
| 39 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 40 house | nmod:poss |
| 40 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 give | obl |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 invited | punct |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 48 invited | cc |
| 43 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 48 invited | mark |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 mink | det |
| 45 | mink | mink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 invited | nsubj:pass |
| 46 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 48 invited | aux |
| 47 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 48 invited | aux:pass |
| 48 | invited | invite | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 took | conj |
| 49 | to | to | ADP | _ | 51 party | case |
| 50 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 51 party | det |
| 51 | party | party | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 invited | obl |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | It | husband | time | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | |||
| 2 | make up | to-infinitive | husband's minds | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mind=Pivot | |||||
| 3 | propose | past | one wolf | one thing | vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme | ||||
| 4 | agree speech: agree | past · passive | thing | last | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.co-agent that S»: subject=Co-Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 5 | give not said to happen | should | the old wolf | a great feast | Wolf's house | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feast=Theme | |||
| 6 | invite | should · passive | the mink | to the party | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Recipient | ||||
| 7 | mind | husband | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=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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