The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 35, sentence 37
So with a sigh he turned away and went back to them, but, as he walked, a thought struck him.
Who acts: noise, thought · What happens: turn away, go back, walk, strike · To what, where: sides, noise
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 (noise, thought), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 6 turned | advmod |
| 2 | with | with | ADP | _ | 4 sigh | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 sigh | det |
| 4 | sigh | sigh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 turned | obl |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 turned | nsubj |
| 6 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | away | away | ADV | _ | 6 turned | advmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 went | cc |
| 9 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 turned | conj |
| 10 | back | back | ADV | _ | 9 went | advmod |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 them | case |
| 12 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 went | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 struck | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 struck | cc |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 but | punct |
| 16 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 18 walked | mark |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 walked | nsubj |
| 18 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 struck | advcl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 walked | punct |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 thought | det |
| 21 | thought | thought | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 struck | nsubj |
| 22 | struck | strike | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 turned | conj |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 struck | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn away | past | noise | with a sigh; away property | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | go back | past | noise not said here | sides = side | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to they=Result | ||||
| 3 | walk | past | noise | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | strike | past | a thought | noise | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent he=Instrument |
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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