The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 36, sentence 25
The Stalo put out his hand to take his iron mantle from the bed, where it always lay, but the mantle was no there.
Who acts: Stalo, mantle · What happens: put out, take, lie, not be · To what, where: hand, iron mantle, bed
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 (Stalo, mantle), 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 | 2 Stalo | det |
| 2 | Stalo | Stalo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 put | nsubj |
| 3 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 3 put | compound:prt |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 hand | nmod:poss |
| 6 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 put | obj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 take | mark |
| 8 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 put | advcl |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 mantle | nmod:poss |
| 10 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 mantle | compound |
| 11 | mantle | mantle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 take | obj |
| 12 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 bed | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 bed | det |
| 14 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 take | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 lay | punct |
| 16 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 19 lay | advmod |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 lay | nsubj |
| 18 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 19 lay | advmod |
| 19 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 take | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 there | punct |
| 21 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 26 there | cc |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 mantle | det |
| 23 | mantle | mantle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 there | nsubj |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 there | cop |
| 25 | no | no | ADV | _ | 26 there | advmod |
| 26 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 put | advmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put out | past | the Stalo | Stalo's hand | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent hand=Goal | ||||
| 2 | take | to-infinitive | the Stalo not said here | Stalo's iron mantle | the bed | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent mantle=Theme from bed=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | lie | past | mantle | always property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | not is | past | the mantle | there 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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