The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 38, sentence 100
On their way they crossed a deep valley and came to a mountain, where the man opened a trapdoor, and bidding Hans follow him, he crept in and began to go down a long flight of steps.
Who acts: pounds, man, bidding Hans · What happens: cross, come, open, bid, follow, creep in · To what, where: deep valley, way, mountain, trapdoor, man, long flight
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 (pounds, man, bidding Hans), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 way | case |
| 2 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 way | nmod:poss |
| 3 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 crossed | obl |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 crossed | nsubj |
| 5 | crossed | cross | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 valley | det |
| 7 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 valley | amod |
| 8 | valley | valley | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 crossed | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 came | cc |
| 10 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 crossed | conj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 mountain | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 mountain | det |
| 13 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 came | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 opened | punct |
| 15 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 18 opened | advmod |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 man | det |
| 17 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 opened | nsubj |
| 18 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 mountain | acl:relcl |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 trapdoor | det |
| 20 | trapdoor | trapdoor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 opened | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 follow | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 follow | cc |
| 23 | bidding | bid | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 24 Hans | amod |
| 24 | Hans | han | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 follow | nsubj |
| 25 | follow | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 crossed | parataxis |
| 26 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 follow | obj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 crept | punct |
| 28 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 crept | nsubj |
| 29 | crept | creep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 follow | advcl |
| 30 | in | in | ADV | _ | 29 crept | advmod |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 began | cc |
| 32 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 crept | conj |
| 33 | to | to | PART | _ | 34 go | mark |
| 34 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 began | xcomp |
| 35 | down | down | ADV | _ | 34 go | advmod |
| 36 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 flight | det |
| 37 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 flight | amod |
| 38 | flight | flight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 go | obj |
| 39 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 steps | case |
| 40 | steps | step | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 flight | nmod |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 crossed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cross | past | pounds = pound | a deep valley | pounds's way | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent valley=Patient | |||
| 2 | come | past | pounds = pound not said here | a mountain | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to mountain=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | open | past | the man | a trapdoor | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location trapdoor=Theme | ||||
| 4 | bid | gerund | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | follow | present | bidding Hans | man | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 6 | creep in | past | man | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 7 | begin | past | man not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 8 | go down | to-infinitive | man not said here | a long flight of steps | down property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient flight=Extent |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/38/100/