The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 39, sentence 103
So Hans stayed, and he and she became good friends; though, of course, he only became a man when no one else was present.
Who acts: Hans, one · What happens: stay, become, be · To what, where: good friends, man
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 39. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hans, one), 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 stayed | advmod |
| 2 | Hans | Hans | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 stayed | nsubj |
| 3 | stayed | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 became | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 became | cc |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 became | nsubj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 she | cc |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 he | conj |
| 9 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 stayed | conj |
| 10 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 friends | amod |
| 11 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 became | xcomp |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 though | punct |
| 13 | though | though | ADV | _ | 3 stayed | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 course | punct |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 course | case |
| 16 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stayed | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 became | punct |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 became | nsubj |
| 19 | only | only | ADV | _ | 20 became | advmod |
| 20 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 stayed | conj |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 man | det |
| 22 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 became | xcomp |
| 23 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 28 present | advmod |
| 24 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 25 one | det |
| 25 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 present | nsubj |
| 26 | else | else | ADV | _ | 25 one | advmod |
| 27 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 present | cop |
| 28 | present | present | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 became | xcomp |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 stayed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stay | past | Hans | of course; though property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | become | past | Hans | good friends | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | become | past | Hans | a man | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | is | past | no one | present property | tree rules |
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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