The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 35, sentence 25
And again the young man stretched out his hand; and the two old women fell to quarrelling afresh.
Who acts: young man, two old women · What happens: stretch out, fall · To what, where: hand
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 (young man, two old women), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 stretched | cc |
| 2 | again | again | ADV | _ | 6 stretched | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 man | det |
| 4 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 man | amod |
| 5 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stretched | nsubj |
| 6 | stretched | stretch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | out | out | ADP | _ | 6 stretched | compound:prt |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 hand | nmod:poss |
| 9 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stretched | obj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 fell | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 fell | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 women | det |
| 13 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 women | nummod |
| 14 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 women | amod |
| 15 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 fell | nsubj |
| 16 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 stretched | conj |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 quarrelling | case |
| 18 | quarrelling | quarrelling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 fell | obl |
| 19 | afresh | afresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 fell | xcomp |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 stretched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stretch out | participle | the young man | man's hand | again | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent hand=Patient | |||
| 2 | fall | past | the two old women | to quarrelling; afresh property | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to quarrelling=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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