The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 37, sentence 8
Next, Andras put all the gold and jewels which he found in the boat into his pockets, and bidding the boy get in, pushed it off from the shore, leaving the little craft to drift as it would, while he himself ran home.
Who acts: Andras, jewels, bidding · What happens: put, find, bid, get in, push off, leave · To what, where: gold, boat, boy, shore, little craft
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 (Andras, jewels, bidding), 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 | Next | next | ADV | _ | 4 put | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Next | punct |
| 3 | Andras | Andras | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 put | nsubj |
| 4 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 gold | det:predet |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 gold | det |
| 7 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 put | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 jewels | cc |
| 9 | jewels | jewel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 gold | conj |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 found | nsubj |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 found | nsubj |
| 12 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 jewels | acl:relcl |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 boat | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 boat | det |
| 15 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 found | obl |
| 16 | into | into | ADP | _ | 18 pockets | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 pockets | nmod:poss |
| 18 | pockets | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 found | obl | |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 get | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 get | cc |
| 21 | bidding | bid | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 24 get | csubj |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 boy | det |
| 23 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 bidding | obj |
| 24 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 put | conj |
| 25 | in | in | ADV | _ | 24 get | advmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 pushed | punct |
| 27 | pushed | push | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 put | conj |
| 28 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 pushed | obj |
| 29 | off | off | ADP | _ | 27 pushed | compound:prt |
| 30 | from | from | ADP | _ | 32 shore | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 shore | det |
| 32 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 pushed | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 leaving | punct |
| 34 | leaving | leave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 27 pushed | advcl |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 craft | det |
| 36 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 craft | amod |
| 37 | craft | craft | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 leaving | obj |
| 38 | to | to | PART | _ | 39 drift | mark |
| 39 | drift | drift | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 leaving | advcl |
| 40 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 42 would | mark |
| 41 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 would | nsubj |
| 42 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 39 drift | advcl |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 ran | punct |
| 44 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 47 ran | mark |
| 45 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 47 ran | nsubj |
| 46 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 45 he | nmod:unmarked |
| 47 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 put | conj |
| 48 | home | home | ADV | _ | 47 ran | advmod |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | past | Andras | all gold and jewels | next property | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent gold=Goal | |||
| 2 | find | past | jewels | the boat | into Andras's pockets | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | bid | gerund | the boy | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | get in | present | bidding | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | push off | past | Andras not said here | boat | the shore | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent it=Theme from shore=Trajectory | |||
| 6 | leave | gerund | Andras not said here | the little craft | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent craft=Theme | ||||
| 7 | drift | to-infinitive | Andras not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 8 | run | past | Andras | home property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «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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