The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 39, sentence 115
'Will anyone go down and see where the passage leads to?' he asked, turning to his guards and courtiers. '
Who acts: anyone, passage · What happens: go down, see, lead, ask, turn · To what, where: guards · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (anyone, passage), 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 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 go | punct |
| 2 | Will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 go | aux |
| 3 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 4 go | nsubj |
| 4 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | down | down | ADV | _ | 4 go | advmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 see | cc |
| 7 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 go | conj |
| 8 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 11 leads | advmod |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 passage | det |
| 10 | passage | passage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 leads | nsubj |
| 11 | leads | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 see | ccomp |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 leads | advmod |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 go | punct |
| 14 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 go | punct |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 asked | nsubj |
| 16 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 go | parataxis |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 turning | punct |
| 18 | turning | turn | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 asked | advcl |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 guards | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 guards | nmod:poss |
| 21 | guards | guard | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 turning | obl |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 courtiers | cc |
| 23 | courtiers | courtier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 guards | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 go | punct |
| 25 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go down | future | anyone | down property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | see | infinitive | anyone not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | lead | present | the passage | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition | |||||
| 4 | ask speech: ask | past | passage | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | turn | gerund | passage not said here | passage's guards and courtiers | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to guard=Trajectory |
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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