The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 35, sentence 47
Down, down, down he went; would he ever stop going?
Who acts: fish · What happens: go, stop
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 (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 | Down | down | ADV | _ | 7 went | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 down | punct |
| 3 | down | down | ADV | _ | 1 Down | conj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Down | punct |
| 5 | down | down | ADV | _ | 7 went | advmod |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 went | nsubj |
| 7 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 stop | punct |
| 9 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 stop | aux |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 stop | nsubj |
| 11 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 12 stop | advmod |
| 12 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 went | parataxis |
| 13 | going | go | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 stop | xcomp |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | fish | down property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | stop | would | fish | ever | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | go | gerund | fish not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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