The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 36, sentence 72
So, followed by many of the villagers, the two men walked down to the sea.
Who acts: two men · What happens: follow, walk down · To what, where: villagers, sea
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 men), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 followed | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 followed | punct |
| 3 | followed | follow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 5 many | case |
| 5 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 followed | obl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 villagers | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 villagers | det |
| 8 | villagers | villager | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 many | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 walked | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 men | det |
| 11 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 men | nummod |
| 12 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 walked | nsubj |
| 13 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 villagers | acl:relcl |
| 14 | down | down | ADV | _ | 13 walked | advmod |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 sea | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 sea | det |
| 17 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 walked | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 followed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | participle | by many of the villagers | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by many=Location | |||||
| 2 | walk down | past | the two men | the villagers not said here | the sea | down property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent villager=Theme to sea=Trajectory |
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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