The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 39, sentence 4
Here was a good way of passing the time, he thought, for he was fond of reading, and he took one of the books from the shelf.
Who acts: good way, eye · What happens: be, pass, think, take · To what, where: good way, one, shelf · 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 (good way, eye), 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 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 way | advmod |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 way | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 way | det |
| 4 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 way | amod |
| 5 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 thought | obl |
| 6 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 7 passing | mark |
| 7 | passing | pass | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 way | acl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 time | det |
| 9 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 passing | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 way | punct |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 thought | nsubj |
| 12 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 fond | punct |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 fond | case |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 fond | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 fond | cop |
| 17 | fond | fond | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 thought | ccomp |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 reading | case |
| 19 | reading | reading | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 fond | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 took | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 took | cc |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 took | nsubj |
| 23 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 thought | conj |
| 24 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 23 took | obj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 books | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 books | det |
| 27 | books | book | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 one | nmod |
| 28 | from | from | ADP | _ | 30 shelf | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 shelf | det |
| 30 | shelf | shelf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 took | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | a good way | here | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | pass | gerund | a good way not said here | time | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | think speech: other | past | eye | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is | past | eye | of reading; fond property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | take | past | eye | one of the books | the shelf | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent one=Theme from shelf=Initial_Location |
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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