The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 37, sentence 5
Then he died; and Andras sailed in his boat away across the fiord and found the dog and boy.
Who acts: dog, Andras · What happens: die, sail, find · To what, where: boat, dog
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dog, Andras), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 died | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 died | nsubj |
| 3 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 7 sailed | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 Andras | cc |
| 6 | Andras | Andras | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 sailed | nsubj |
| 7 | sailed | sail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 died | conj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 boat | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 boat | nmod:poss |
| 10 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sailed | obl |
| 11 | away | away | ADV | _ | 7 sailed | advmod |
| 12 | across | across | ADP | _ | 14 fiord | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 fiord | det |
| 14 | fiord | fiord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sailed | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 found | cc |
| 16 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 sailed | conj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 dog | det |
| 18 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 found | obj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 boy | cc |
| 20 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 dog | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 died | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | die | past | dog | then | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | sail | past | Andras | dog's boat | across the fiord; away property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent across fiord=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | find | past | Andras not said here | the dog and boy | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=Topic |
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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