The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 35, sentence 107
At length their eyes dropped on the thread which lay on the snow, and they set out to follow it.
Who acts: eyes, thread · What happens: drop, lie, set out, follow · To what, where: length, snow
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 35. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eyes, thread), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 length | case |
| 2 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 dropped | obl |
| 3 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 4 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 dropped | nsubj |
| 5 | dropped | drop | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 thread | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 thread | det |
| 8 | thread | thread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 dropped | obl |
| 9 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 lay | nsubj |
| 10 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 thread | acl:relcl |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 snow | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 snow | det |
| 13 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 lay | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 set | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 set | cc |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 set | nsubj |
| 17 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 dropped | conj |
| 18 | out | out | ADP | _ | 17 set | compound:prt |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 follow | mark |
| 20 | follow | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 set | xcomp |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 follow | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 dropped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drop | participle | sheds's eyes | length | on the thread | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent at length=Destination on thread=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | lie | past | the thread | the snow | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on snow=Location | ||||
| 3 | set out | past | eyes = eye | vn begin-55.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | follow | to-infinitive | eyes = eye not said here | snow | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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