The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 35, sentence 31
As soon as the pot began to sing he took off the lid, and sprinkled the eyes of the women, and sight came back to them once more.
Who acts: man, sight · What happens: begin, sing, take off, sprinkle, come back · To what, where: lid, eyes · 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 (man, sight), 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 | As | as | ADV | _ | 2 soon | advmod |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 began | advmod |
| 3 | as | as | ADP | _ | 5 pot | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 pot | det |
| 5 | pot | pot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 began | obl |
| 6 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 sing | mark |
| 8 | sing | sing | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 began | xcomp |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 took | nsubj |
| 10 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 sing | ccomp |
| 11 | off | off | ADP | _ | 10 took | compound:prt |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 lid | det |
| 13 | lid | lid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 took | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 sprinkled | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 sprinkled | cc |
| 16 | sprinkled | sprinkle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 began | conj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 eyes | det |
| 18 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 sprinkled | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 women | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 women | det |
| 21 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 eyes | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 came | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 came | cc |
| 24 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 came | nsubj |
| 25 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 began | conj |
| 26 | back | back | ADV | _ | 25 came | advmod |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 them | case |
| 28 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 came | obl |
| 29 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 30 more | advmod |
| 30 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 25 came | advmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | as the pot; soon property | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | sing speech: express | to-infinitive | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 3 | take off | past | man | the lid | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lid=Theme | ||||
| 4 | sprinkle | past | the eyes of the women | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent eye=Theme | |||||
| 5 | come back | past | sight | eyes = eye | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to they=Initial_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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