The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 34, sentence 77
'Pull the canoes a little apart; they are too close for this new dance,' he said, pausing for a moment.
Who acts: Mink, Wolf · What happens: pull, be, say, pause · To what, where: canoes · 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 (Mink, Wolf), 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 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Pull | punct |
| 2 | Pull | pull | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 said | ccomp |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 canoes | det |
| 4 | canoes | canoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 Pull | obj |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 little | det |
| 6 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Pull | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | apart | apart | ADV | _ | 2 Pull | advmod |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 close | punct |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 close | nsubj |
| 10 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 close | cop |
| 11 | too | too | ADV | _ | 12 close | advmod |
| 12 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Pull | parataxis |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 dance | case |
| 14 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 dance | det |
| 15 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 dance | amod |
| 16 | dance | dance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 close | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Pull | punct |
| 18 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Pull | punct |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 said | nsubj |
| 20 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 pausing | punct |
| 22 | pausing | pause | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 said | advcl |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 moment | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 moment | det |
| 25 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 pausing | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pull | infinitive | the canoes | a little obl:unmarked; apart property | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent canoe=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | present | Mink | for this new dance; close property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Wolf | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | pause | gerund | Wolf not said here | moment | vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/34/77/