The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 35, sentence 57
And, to satisfy him, the woman turned round and perceived her husband.
Who acts: woman · What happens: satisfy, turn round, perceive · To what, where: father, husband
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 (woman), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 satisfy | cc |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 satisfy | punct |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 satisfy | mark |
| 4 | satisfy | satisfy | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 satisfy | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 turned | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 woman | det |
| 8 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 turned | nsubj |
| 9 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 satisfy | parataxis |
| 10 | round | round | ADV | _ | 9 turned | advmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 perceived | cc |
| 12 | perceived | perceive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 turned | conj |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 husband | nmod:poss |
| 14 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 perceived | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 satisfy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | satisfy | to-infinitive | father | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | turn round | past | the woman | round property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | perceive | past | the woman not said here | woman's husband | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer husband=Stimulus |
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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