The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 35, sentence 46
Then they bade him farewell, and he curled himself up in the basket.
Who acts: salmon, fish · What happens: bade, curl up · To what, where: fish, basket
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, fish), 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 bade | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 bade | nsubj |
| 3 | bade | bade | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 bade | obj |
| 5 | farewell | farewell | ADV | _ | 3 bade | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 curled | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 curled | cc |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 curled | nsubj |
| 9 | curled | curl | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 bade | conj |
| 10 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 9 curled | obj |
| 11 | up | up | ADP | _ | 9 curled | compound:prt |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 basket | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 basket | det |
| 14 | basket | basket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 curled | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 bade | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bade | past | salmon | fish | then | farewell property | tree rules | ||
| 2 | curl up | past | fish | fish | the basket | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=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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