The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 37, sentence 7
That is why no REAL Stalo is ever seen without his dog; but the bailiff, being only half a Stalo, had forgotten him, when he went to the little lakes in search of Andras.
Who acts: That, dog, bailiff, Stalo · What happens: be, see, forget, go, search · To what, where: REAL Stalo, Stalo, search, Andras
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 (That, dog, bailiff, Stalo), 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 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 why | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 why | cop |
| 3 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Rel | root | root |
| 4 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 6 Stalo | det |
| 5 | REAL | REAL | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 Stalo | amod |
| 6 | Stalo | Stalo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 seen | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 seen | aux:pass |
| 8 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 9 seen | advmod |
| 9 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 why | advcl:relcl |
| 10 | without | without | ADP | _ | 12 dog | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 dog | nmod:poss |
| 12 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 seen | obl:agent |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 bailiff | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 bailiff | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 bailiff | det |
| 16 | bailiff | bailiff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 forgotten | nsubj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 Stalo | punct |
| 18 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 Stalo | cop |
| 19 | only | only | ADV | _ | 22 Stalo | advmod |
| 20 | half | half | DET | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind | 22 Stalo | det:predet |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 Stalo | det |
| 22 | Stalo | Stalo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 bailiff | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 bailiff | punct |
| 24 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 forgotten | aux |
| 25 | forgotten | forget | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 why | parataxis |
| 26 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 forgotten | obj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 went | punct |
| 28 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 30 went | advmod |
| 29 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 went | nsubj |
| 30 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 forgotten | conj |
| 31 | to | to | ADP | _ | 34 lakes | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 lakes | det |
| 33 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 lakes | amod |
| 34 | lakes | lake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 went | obl |
| 35 | in | in | ADP | _ | 36 search | case |
| 36 | search | search | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 went | obl |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 Andras | case |
| 38 | Andras | Andras | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 search | nmod |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 why | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | That | why property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | see | present · passive | Stalo's dog | no REAL Stalo | ever | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer subject=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | is a | gerund | half Stalo | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | forget | past · perfect | the bailiff | Stalo | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | go | past | Stalo | search of Andras | to the little lakes | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to lake=Initial_Location | |||
| 6 | search | Andras | nom search «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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