The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 36, sentence 76
On he came, taller than Andras by several inches, but heavier of build.
Who acts: stranger · What happens: come
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 (stranger), 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 | On | on | SCONJ | _ | 3 came | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 taller | punct |
| 5 | taller | tall | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 came | nsubj |
| 6 | than | than | ADP | _ | 7 Andras | case |
| 7 | Andras | Andras | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 taller | obl |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 inches | case |
| 9 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 inches | amod |
| 10 | inches | inch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 taller | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 heavier | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 heavier | cc |
| 13 | heavier | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 came | parataxis |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 build | case |
| 15 | build | build | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 heavier | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | stranger | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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