The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 35, sentence 38
He pulled out one of his hairs which hung nearly to his waist, and it instantly became a strong line, nearly a mile in length.
Who acts: noise, hairs, thought · What happens: pull out, hang, become · To what, where: one, strong line
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, hairs, 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 pulled | nsubj |
| 2 | pulled | pull | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | out | out | ADP | _ | 2 pulled | compound:prt |
| 4 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 pulled | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 hairs | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 hairs | nmod:poss |
| 7 | hairs | hair | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 one | nmod |
| 8 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 hung | nsubj |
| 9 | hung | hang | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 hairs | acl:relcl |
| 10 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 13 waist | advmod |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 waist | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 waist | nmod:poss |
| 13 | waist | waist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 hung | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 became | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 became | cc |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 became | nsubj |
| 17 | instantly | instantly | ADV | _ | 18 became | advmod |
| 18 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 pulled | conj |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 line | det |
| 20 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 line | amod |
| 21 | line | line | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 became | xcomp |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 mile | punct |
| 23 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 25 mile | advmod |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 mile | det |
| 25 | mile | mile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 line | nmod |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 length | case |
| 27 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 mile | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 pulled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pull out | past | noise | one of noise's hairs | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | hang | past | noise's hairs | to noise's waist | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | become | past | thought | a strong line a mile in length | instantly property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
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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