The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 36, sentence 70
Andras was quite ready to accept the challenge, and they soon settled the terms of the wager.
Who acts: Andras, eyes · What happens: be, accept, settle, term · To what, where: challenge, terms, wager
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, eyes), 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 | Andras | Andras | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 ready | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 ready | cop |
| 3 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 4 ready | advmod |
| 4 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 accept | mark |
| 6 | accept | accept | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 ready | xcomp |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 challenge | det |
| 8 | challenge | challenge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 accept | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 settled | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 settled | cc |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 settled | nsubj |
| 12 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 13 settled | advmod |
| 13 | settled | settle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 ready | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 terms | det |
| 15 | terms | term | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 settled | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 wager | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 wager | det |
| 18 | wager | wager | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 terms | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 ready | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Andras | ready property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | accept | to-infinitive | Andras not said here | the challenge | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent challenge=Theme | ||||
| 3 | settle | past | eyes = eye | the terms of the wager | soon property | vn odge-46-1 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme term=Location | |||
| 4 | term | the wager | nom term «communication transitive»: of=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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