The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 35, sentence 7
It took him many days to get there, and when he saw his son sitting in his place his anger was kindled, and his heart was stirred to take vengeance upon him.
Who acts: It, country, son, place · What happens: take, get, see, sit, kindle, stir · To what, where: country, son, place, anger, heart, vengeance
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 (It, country, son, place), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 took | nsubj |
| 2 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 took | obj |
| 4 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 days | amod |
| 5 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 took | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 get | mark |
| 7 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 took | advcl |
| 8 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 get | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 saw | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 saw | cc |
| 11 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 saw | advmod |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 saw | nsubj |
| 13 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 took | parataxis |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 son | nmod:poss |
| 15 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 saw | obj |
| 16 | sitting | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 son | acl |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 place | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 place | nmod:poss |
| 19 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 sitting | obl |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 anger | nmod:poss |
| 21 | anger | anger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 kindled | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 kindled | aux:pass |
| 23 | kindled | kindle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 place | acl:relcl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 stirred | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 stirred | cc |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 heart | nmod:poss |
| 27 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 stirred | nsubj:pass |
| 28 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 stirred | aux:pass |
| 29 | stirred | stir | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 saw | conj |
| 30 | to | to | PART | _ | 31 take | mark |
| 31 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 stirred | xcomp |
| 32 | vengeance | vengeance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 take | obj |
| 33 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 34 him | case |
| 34 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 take | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | It | country | day | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination | |||
| 2 | get | to-infinitive | there | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | see | past | country | country's son | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer son=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | sit | gerund | country's son not said here | country's place | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in place=Location | ||||
| 5 | kindle | past · passive | country's place not said here | country's anger | vn engender-27.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 6 | stir | past · passive | country's heart | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | take | to-infinitive | vengeance | upon country | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vengeance=Theme | ||||
| 8 | anger | country | nom anger «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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