The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 36, sentence 29
The two Sodnos did not trouble about him, but quickly stripped the younger Stalos of their clothes, in which they dressed themselves.
Who acts: two Sodnos, clothes · What happens: do, strip, dress · To what, where: trouble, younger Stalos, clothes
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 (two Sodnos, clothes), 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 Sodnos | det |
| 2 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 Sodnos | nummod |
| 3 | Sodnos | Sodnos | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 did | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 trouble | advmod |
| 6 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 did | obj |
| 7 | about | about | ADP | _ | 8 him | case |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 trouble | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 stripped | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 stripped | cc |
| 11 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 12 stripped | advmod |
| 12 | stripped | strip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 did | parataxis |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Stalos | det |
| 14 | younger | young | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 15 Stalos | amod |
| 15 | Stalos | Stalos | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 stripped | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 clothes | case |
| 17 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 clothes | nmod:poss |
| 18 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 15 Stalos | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 dressed | punct |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 which | case |
| 21 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 dressed | obl |
| 22 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 dressed | nsubj |
| 23 | dressed | dress | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 stripped | conj |
| 24 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 23 dressed | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | the two Sodnos | trouble | about Stalo | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trouble=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | strip | past | the younger Stalos of bed's clothes | quickly property | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stalos=Patient | ||||
| 3 | dress | past | clothes | clothes | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Patient |
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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