The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 35, sentence 53
Then he flung off the blanket and sprang out, while the basket vanished in the sky.
Who acts: crow, basket · What happens: fling off, spring out, vanish · To what, where: blanket, sky
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 (crow, basket), 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 flung | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 flung | nsubj |
| 3 | flung | fling | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | off | off | ADP | _ | 6 blanket | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 blanket | det |
| 6 | blanket | blanket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 flung | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 sprang | cc |
| 8 | sprang | spring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 flung | conj |
| 9 | out | out | ADP | _ | 8 sprang | compound:prt |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 vanished | punct |
| 11 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 14 vanished | mark |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 basket | det |
| 13 | basket | basket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 vanished | nsubj |
| 14 | vanished | vanish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 flung | conj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 sky | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 sky | det |
| 17 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 vanished | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 flung | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fling off | past | crow | the blanket | then | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blanket=Theme | |||
| 2 | spring out | past | crow not said here | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | vanish | past | the basket | the sky | 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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