The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 35, sentence 18
He thought that he had been climbing that tree for days, and perhaps he had, for suddenly a beautiful country, yellow with fields of maize, stretched before him, and he gladly left the top of the tree and entered it.
Who acts: bird · What happens: think, climb, have, stretch, leave, enter · To what, where: tree, top · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (bird), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 thought | nsubj |
| 2 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 climbing | mark |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 climbing | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 climbing | aux |
| 6 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 climbing | aux |
| 7 | climbing | climb | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 thought | advcl |
| 8 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 tree | det |
| 9 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 climbing | obj |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 days | case |
| 11 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 climbing | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 had | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 had | cc |
| 14 | perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 16 had | advmod |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 had | nsubj |
| 16 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 thought | ccomp |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 country | punct |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 country | case |
| 19 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 22 country | advmod |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 country | det |
| 21 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 country | amod |
| 22 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 had | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 yellow | punct |
| 24 | yellow | yellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 country | amod |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 fields | case |
| 26 | fields | field | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 yellow | obl |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 maize | case |
| 28 | maize | maize | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 fields | nmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 stretched | punct |
| 30 | stretched | stretch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 yellow | conj |
| 31 | before | before | ADP | _ | 32 him | case |
| 32 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 stretched | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 left | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 left | cc |
| 35 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 left | nsubj |
| 36 | gladly | gladly | ADV | _ | 37 left | advmod |
| 37 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 thought | parataxis |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 top | det |
| 39 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 left | obj |
| 40 | of | of | ADP | _ | 42 tree | case |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 tree | det |
| 42 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 top | nmod |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 entered | cc |
| 44 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 left | conj |
| 45 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 entered | obj |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | bird | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | climb | past · perfect · progressive | bird | that tree | day | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location tree=Theme | |||
| 3 | have | past | bird | for a beautiful country; perhaps property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | stretch | participle | bird not said here | before bird | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 5 | leave | past | bird | the top of the tree | gladly property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent top=Theme | |||
| 6 | enter | past | bird not said here | top | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Destination |
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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