The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 36, sentence 18
Then they went back to worry the reindeer, and the noise became as great as ever, and a second time the Stalo awoke.
Who acts: bed, noise, Stalo · What happens: go back, worry, become, awake · To what, where: reindeer
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 (bed, noise, 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 went | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | back | back | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 worry | mark |
| 6 | worry | worry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 went | xcomp |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 reindeer | det |
| 8 | reindeer | reindeer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 worry | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 became | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 became | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 noise | det |
| 12 | noise | noise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 became | nsubj |
| 13 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 14 | as | as | ADV | _ | 15 great | advmod |
| 15 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 became | xcomp |
| 16 | as | as | ADP | _ | 17 ever | case |
| 17 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 15 great | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 awoke | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 awoke | cc |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 time | det |
| 21 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 22 time | amod |
| 22 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 awoke | obl:unmarked |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 Stalo | det |
| 24 | Stalo | Stalo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 awoke | nsubj |
| 25 | awoke | awake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go back | past | bed | then | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | worry | to-infinitive | bed not said here | the reindeer | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus reindeer=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | become | past | the noise | great property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | awake | past | the Stalo | time | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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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