The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 36, sentence 50
Luckily, no rod was within her reach, and the Sodno managed, after a little, to coax her back into good humour, and at length she told him that the youngest Stalo had buried his treasure under the very place where she was sitting.
Who acts: rod, Sodno, woman, man · What happens: be, manage, coax back, tell, bury, sit · To what, where: woman, good humour, man, length, youngest Stalo, place · 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 (rod, Sodno, woman, man), 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 | Luckily | luckily | ADV | _ | 8 reach | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Luckily | punct |
| 3 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 4 rod | det |
| 4 | rod | rod | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 reach | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 reach | cop |
| 6 | within | within | ADP | _ | 8 reach | case |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 reach | nmod:poss |
| 8 | reach | reach | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 managed | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 managed | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Sodno | det |
| 12 | Sodno | Sodno | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 managed | nsubj |
| 13 | managed | manage | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 reach | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 little | punct |
| 15 | after | after | ADP | _ | 17 little | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 little | det |
| 17 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 managed | obl:unmarked |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 coax | punct |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 coax | mark |
| 20 | coax | coax | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 13 managed | parataxis |
| 21 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 coax | obj |
| 22 | back | back | ADV | _ | 20 coax | advmod |
| 23 | into | into | ADP | _ | 25 humour | case |
| 24 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 humour | amod |
| 25 | humour | humour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 coax | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 told | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 told | cc |
| 28 | at | at | ADP | _ | 29 length | case |
| 29 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 told | obl |
| 30 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 told | nsubj |
| 31 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 coax | parataxis |
| 32 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 told | iobj |
| 33 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 38 buried | mark |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 Stalo | det |
| 35 | youngest | young | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 36 Stalo | amod |
| 36 | Stalo | Stalo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 buried | nsubj:pass |
| 37 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 buried | aux |
| 38 | buried | bury | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 31 told | ccomp |
| 39 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 40 treasure | nmod:poss |
| 40 | treasure | treasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 buried | obj |
| 41 | under | under | ADP | _ | 44 place | case |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 place | det |
| 43 | very | very | ADV | _ | 44 place | advmod |
| 44 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 buried | obl |
| 45 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 48 sitting | advmod |
| 46 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 48 sitting | nsubj |
| 47 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 48 sitting | aux |
| 48 | sitting | sit | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 44 place | acl:relcl |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 reach | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | no rod | within woman's reach; luckily property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | manage | past | the Sodno | after a little | vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | coax back | to-infinitive | woman | into good humour result | vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent she=Patient into humour=Result | ||||
| 4 | tell speech: assert | past | woman | man | length | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 5 | bury | past · perfect · passive | the youngest Stalo | the place | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme treasure=Destination | ||||
| 6 | sit | past · progressive | woman | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | treasure | man | nom treasure «possession transitive»: poss=agent |
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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