The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 36, sentence 83
The following spring Andras happened to be driving his reindeer along a great fiord to the west of Vadso.
Who acts: following spring · What happens: follow, happen, drive · To what, where: reindeer, great fiord
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 (following spring), 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 spring | det |
| 2 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 spring | amod |
| 3 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 happened | nsubj |
| 4 | Andras | Andras | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 spring | appos |
| 5 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 driving | mark |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 driving | aux |
| 8 | driving | drive | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 happened | advcl |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 reindeer | nmod:poss |
| 10 | reindeer | reindeer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 driving | obj |
| 11 | along | along | ADP | _ | 14 fiord | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 fiord | det |
| 13 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 fiord | amod |
| 14 | fiord | fiord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 driving | obl |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 west | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 west | det |
| 17 | west | west | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 driving | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 Vadso | case |
| 19 | Vadso | Vadso | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 west | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 happened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | happen | past | the following spring | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | drive | to-infinitive · progressive | the following spring not said here | Andras's reindeer | a great fiord | to the west of Vadso | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent reindeer=Theme along fiord=Destination to west=Initial_Location |
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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