The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 38, sentence 10
So he stretched out his bad foot which the youth examined with great attention, and then gently laid on the plaster.
Who acts: Balancin, bad foot · What happens: stretch out, youth, examine, lay · To what, where: bad foot, youth, plaster
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Balancin, bad foot), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 stretched | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 stretched | nsubj |
| 3 | stretched | stretch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 3 stretched | compound:prt |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 foot | nmod:poss |
| 6 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 foot | amod |
| 7 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stretched | obj |
| 8 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 youth | nsubj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 youth | det |
| 10 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 foot | conj |
| 11 | examined | examine | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 youth | acl |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 attention | case |
| 13 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 attention | amod |
| 14 | attention | attention | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 examined | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 laid | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 laid | cc |
| 17 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 19 laid | advmod |
| 18 | gently | gently | ADV | _ | 19 laid | advmod |
| 19 | laid | lay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 stretched | conj |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 plaster | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 plaster | det |
| 22 | plaster | plaster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 laid | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 stretched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stretch out | past | Balancin | Balancin's bad foot and the youth | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent foot=Patient | ||||
| 2 | youth | Balancin's bad foot and the youth | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | examine | participle | the youth not said here | with great attention | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | lay | participle | Balancin not said here | the plaster | then | gently property | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on plaster=Destination |
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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