The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 34, sentence 56
The next evening the mink washed and brushed himself carefully and set out for the feast.
Who acts: mink · What happens: wash, brush, set out · To what, where: Wolf
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 (mink), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 evening | det |
| 2 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 evening | amod |
| 3 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 washed | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 mink | det |
| 5 | mink | mink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 washed | nsubj |
| 6 | washed | wash | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 brushed | cc |
| 8 | brushed | brush | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 washed | conj |
| 9 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 8 brushed | obj |
| 10 | carefully | carefully | ADV | _ | 8 brushed | advmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 set | cc |
| 12 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 brushed | conj |
| 13 | out | out | ADP | _ | 12 set | compound:prt |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 feast | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 feast | det |
| 16 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 set | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 washed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wash | past | the mink | evening | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | brush | past | the mink not said here | Wolf | carefully property | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent himself=Theme | |||
| 3 | set out | infinitive | the mink not said here | for the feast | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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