The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 35, sentence 44
Then they dragged a basket out of the house, and tied a rope to it. '
Who acts: salmon · What happens: drag, tie · To what, where: basket, house, rope
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 (salmon), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 dragged | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 dragged | nsubj |
| 3 | dragged | drag | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 basket | det |
| 5 | basket | basket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 dragged | obj |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 9 house | case |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 house | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 house | det |
| 9 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 dragged | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 tied | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 tied | cc |
| 12 | tied | tie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 dragged | conj |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 rope | det |
| 14 | rope | rope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 tied | obj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 it | case |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 tied | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 dragged | punct |
| 18 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 dragged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drag | past | salmon | a basket | the house | then | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent basket=Theme out house=Initial_Location | ||
| 2 | tie | past | salmon not said here | a rope | rope | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent rope=Patient to it=Co-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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