The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 34, sentence 95
But when they reached a great river the young man did not want the trouble of carrying his pack any further, and left it on the bank.
Who acts: goats, young man · What happens: reach, not want, carry, leave · To what, where: great river, trouble, pack, bank
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 (goats, young man), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 24 left | cc |
| 2 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 4 reached | mark |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 reached | nsubj |
| 4 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 left | advcl |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 river | det |
| 6 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 river | amod |
| 7 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 reached | obj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 man | det |
| 9 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 man | amod |
| 10 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 want | nsubj |
| 11 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 want | aux |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 want | advmod |
| 13 | want | want | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 reached | ccomp |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 trouble | det |
| 15 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 want | obj |
| 16 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 17 carrying | mark |
| 17 | carrying | carry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 trouble | advcl |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 pack | nmod:poss |
| 19 | pack | pack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 carrying | obj |
| 20 | any | any | ADV | _ | 21 further | advmod |
| 21 | further | far | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 17 carrying | advmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 left | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 left | cc |
| 24 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 left | obj |
| 26 | on | on | ADP | _ | 28 bank | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 bank | det |
| 28 | bank | bank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 left | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 24 left | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | past | goats = goat | a great river | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not want | past · do-support | the young man | the trouble | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot trouble=Theme | ||||
| 3 | carry | gerund | the young man not said here | man's pack | far property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pack=Theme | |||
| 4 | leave | past | pack | the bank | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Theme on bank=Location |
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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