The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 34, sentence 92
Then they started off to the place where the goats and deer were to be found in the greatest numbers, and soon had killed as many as they wanted.
Who acts: Flames · What happens: start off, find, kill, want · To what, where: goats, greatest numbers, many
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 (Flames), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 started | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 started | nsubj |
| 3 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | off | off | ADP | _ | 3 started | compound:prt |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 place | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 place | det |
| 7 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 started | obl |
| 8 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 16 found | advmod |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 goats | det |
| 10 | goats | goat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 found | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 deer | cc |
| 12 | deer | deer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 goats | conj |
| 13 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 found | aux:pass |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 found | mark |
| 15 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 found | aux:pass |
| 16 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 place | acl:relcl |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 numbers | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 numbers | det |
| 19 | greatest | great | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 20 numbers | amod |
| 20 | numbers | number | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 found | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 killed | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 killed | cc |
| 23 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 25 killed | advmod |
| 24 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 killed | aux |
| 25 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 started | conj |
| 26 | as | as | ADV | _ | 27 many | advmod |
| 27 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 killed | obj |
| 28 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 30 wanted | mark |
| 29 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 wanted | nsubj |
| 30 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 many | advcl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 started | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | start off | past | Flames = flame | then | to the place | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | find | past · passive | Flames = flame not said here | the goats and deer | the greatest numbers | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | |||
| 3 | kill | past · perfect | Flames = flame not said here | many | soon property | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent many=Theme | |||
| 4 | want | past | Flames = flame | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot |
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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