The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 35, sentence 97
Long ago she had found out how stupid her sons were, so she just sent them out to milk the reindeer, while she returned to the other house to bury her husband's body.
Who acts: ogress, sons · What happens: find out, be, send out, return, bury · To what, where: children, body · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (ogress, sons), 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 | Long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 2 ago | advmod |
| 2 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 5 found | advmod |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 found | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 found | aux |
| 5 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 5 found | compound:prt |
| 7 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 stupid | advmod |
| 8 | stupid | stupid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 found | ccomp |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 sons | nmod:poss |
| 10 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 stupid | nsubj |
| 11 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 stupid | cop |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 sent | punct |
| 13 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 sent | advmod |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 sent | nsubj |
| 15 | just | just | ADV | _ | 16 sent | advmod |
| 16 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 found | parataxis |
| 17 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 sent | obj |
| 18 | out | out | ADP | _ | 16 sent | compound:prt |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 milk | mark |
| 20 | milk | milk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 sent | advcl |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 reindeer | det |
| 22 | reindeer | reindeer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 sent | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 returned | punct |
| 24 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 26 returned | mark |
| 25 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 returned | nsubj |
| 26 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 sent | conj |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 house | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 house | det |
| 29 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 house | amod |
| 30 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 returned | obl |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 bury | mark |
| 32 | bury | bury | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 returned | advcl |
| 33 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 husband | nmod:poss |
| 34 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 body | nmod:poss |
| 35 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 34 husband | case |
| 36 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 bury | obj |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find out | past · perfect | ogress | ago property | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is | past | ogress's sons | stupid property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | send out | past | ogress | children = child | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Destination reindeer=Theme | ||||
| 4 | return | past | ogress | to the other house result | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to house=Result | ||||
| 5 | bury | to-infinitive | ogress not said here | ogress's husband's body | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent body=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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