The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 35, sentence 78
So he straightway took an old fur coat from the hook where it hung, and putting it on went out into the forest.
Who acts: Patto, coat, putting · What happens: take, hang, put on, go out · To what, where: old fur coat, hook, coat, forest
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 (Patto, coat, putting), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 took | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 took | nsubj |
| 3 | straightway | straightway | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 he | flat |
| 4 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 coat | det |
| 6 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 coat | amod |
| 7 | fur | fur | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 coat | compound |
| 8 | coat | coat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 took | obj |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 hook | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 hook | det |
| 11 | hook | hook | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 took | obl |
| 12 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 14 hung | advmod |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 hung | nsubj |
| 14 | hung | hang | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 hook | acl:relcl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 went | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 went | cc |
| 17 | putting | put | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 went | csubj |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 putting | obj |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 putting | compound:prt |
| 20 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 took | conj |
| 21 | out | out | ADV | _ | 20 went | advmod |
| 22 | into | into | ADP | _ | 24 forest | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 forest | det |
| 24 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 went | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | Patto | a old fur coat | the hook | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent coat=Theme from hook=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | hang | past | coat | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | put on | gerund | coat | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent it=Goal | |||||
| 4 | go out | past | putting | the forest | out property | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=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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