The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 39, sentence 119
At length a soldier, who was a careless sort of fellow, offered himself for the service, and cautiously lowered himself into the darkness.
Who acts: soldier · What happens: be, offer, lower · To what, where: careless sort, man, length, darkness
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 (soldier), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 length | case |
| 2 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 offered | obl |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 soldier | det |
| 4 | soldier | soldier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 length | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 sort | punct |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 sort | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 sort | cop |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 sort | det |
| 9 | careless | careless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 sort | amod |
| 10 | sort | sort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 soldier | appos |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 fellow | case |
| 12 | fellow | fellow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sort | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 length | punct |
| 14 | offered | offer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 14 offered | obj |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 service | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 service | det |
| 18 | service | service | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 offered | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 lowered | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 lowered | cc |
| 21 | cautiously | cautiously | ADV | _ | 22 lowered | advmod |
| 22 | lowered | lower | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 offered | conj |
| 23 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 22 lowered | obj |
| 24 | into | into | ADP | _ | 26 darkness | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 darkness | det |
| 26 | darkness | darkness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 lowered | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 offered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | a soldier | a careless sort | of fellow | tree rules | |||
| 2 | offer | past | man | length | for the service goal | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent himself=Theme for service=Goal | |||
| 3 | lower | past | man | the darkness | cautiously property | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent himself=Theme into darkness=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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