The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 36, sentence 103
The next minute, if anyone had been looking that way, he would have beheld a small reindeer calf speeding northwards, and by-and-by giving a great spring, which landed him in the midst of the stream.
Who acts: next minute, Andras, small reindeer calf, great spring · What happens: look, behold, speed, give, land · To what, where: way, small reindeer calf, Andras, midst
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (next minute, Andras, small reindeer calf, great spring), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 minute | det |
| 2 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 minute | amod |
| 3 | minute | minute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 looking | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 minute | punct |
| 5 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 9 looking | mark |
| 6 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 9 looking | nsubj |
| 7 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 looking | aux |
| 8 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 looking | aux |
| 9 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 10 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 way | det |
| 11 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 looking | obl:unmarked |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 beheld | punct |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 beheld | nsubj |
| 14 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 beheld | aux |
| 15 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 beheld | aux |
| 16 | beheld | behold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 looking | advcl |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 calf | det |
| 18 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 calf | amod |
| 19 | reindeer | reindeer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 calf | compound |
| 20 | calf | calf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 beheld | obj |
| 21 | speeding | speed | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 calf | acl |
| 22 | northwards | northwards | ADV | _ | 21 speeding | advmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 giving | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 giving | cc |
| 25 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 30 giving | mark |
| 26 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 by | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 by | cc |
| 28 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 by | punct |
| 29 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 30 giving | mark |
| 30 | giving | give | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 looking | conj |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 spring | det |
| 32 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 spring | amod |
| 33 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 giving | obj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 landed | punct |
| 35 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 36 landed | nsubj |
| 36 | landed | land | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 spring | acl:relcl |
| 37 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 landed | obj |
| 38 | in | in | ADP | _ | 40 midst | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 midst | det |
| 40 | midst | midst | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 landed | obl |
| 41 | of | of | ADP | _ | 43 stream | case |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 stream | det |
| 43 | stream | stream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 midst | nmod |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 looking | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past · perfect · progressive | the next minute | that way | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | behold | would · perfect | Andras | a small reindeer calf | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer calf=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | speed | gerund | a small reindeer calf not said here | northwards property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | give | gerund | the next minute not said here | spring | vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 5 | land | past | a great spring | Andras | the midst of the stream | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme in midst=Destination |
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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