The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 36, sentence 85
Now the mountaineer was lazily walking along the sands, thinking of the new hut that he was building with the money that he had won on the day of his lucky jump.
Who acts: mountaineer, boy, money · What happens: be, walk, think, build, win, jump · To what, where: sands
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 (mountaineer, boy, money), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 lazily | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 mountaineer | det |
| 3 | mountaineer | mountaineer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lazily | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 lazily | cop |
| 5 | lazily | lazily | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | walking | walk | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 lazily | csubj |
| 7 | along | along | ADP | _ | 9 sands | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 sands | det |
| 9 | sands | sand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 walking | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 thinking | punct |
| 11 | thinking | think | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 walking | conj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 hut | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 hut | det |
| 14 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 hut | amod |
| 15 | hut | hut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 thinking | obl |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 building | mark |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 building | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 building | aux |
| 19 | building | build | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 thinking | advcl |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 money | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 money | det |
| 22 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 building | obl |
| 23 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 won | nsubj |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 won | nsubj |
| 25 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 won | aux |
| 26 | won | win | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 22 money | acl:relcl |
| 27 | on | on | ADP | _ | 29 day | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 day | det |
| 29 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 won | obl |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 jump | case |
| 31 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 jump | nmod:poss |
| 32 | lucky | lucky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 jump | amod |
| 33 | jump | jump | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 day | nmod |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 lazily | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the mountaineer | now | lazily property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | walk | gerund | the sands | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along sand=Trajectory | |||||
| 3 | think speech: other | gerund | of the new hut | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | build | past · progressive | boy | with the money | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent with money=Source | ||||
| 5 | win | past · perfect | the money | day | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | jump | boy | nom jump «event intransitive»: 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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