The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 36, sentence 105
He next ran on to a little hill where he saw down and began to neigh loudly, so that the Stalo might know exactly where he was.
Who acts: Andras, Stalo · What happens: run on, see down, begin, neigh, know, be · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Andras, Stalo), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 ran | nsubj |
| 2 | next | next | ADV | _ | 3 ran | advmod |
| 3 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 3 ran | compound:prt |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 hill | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 hill | det |
| 7 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 hill | amod |
| 8 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ran | obl |
| 9 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 11 saw | advmod |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 saw | nsubj |
| 11 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 hill | acl:relcl |
| 12 | down | down | ADP | _ | 11 saw | compound:prt |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 began | cc |
| 14 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 ran | conj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 neigh | mark |
| 16 | neigh | neigh | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 began | xcomp |
| 17 | loudly | loudly | ADV | _ | 16 neigh | advmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 know | punct |
| 19 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 24 know | mark |
| 20 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 so | fixed |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Stalo | det |
| 22 | Stalo | Stalo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 know | nsubj |
| 23 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 know | aux |
| 24 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 neigh | conj |
| 25 | exactly | exactly | ADV | _ | 26 where | advmod |
| 26 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 24 know | ccomp |
| 27 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 where | nsubj |
| 28 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 where | cop |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run on | past | Andras | to a little hill result; next property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to hill=Result | ||||
| 2 | see down | past | Andras | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | begin | past | Andras not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | neigh | to-infinitive | Andras not said here | loudly property | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | know | might | the Stalo | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 6 | is | past | Andras | exactly, where property | tree rules |
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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