The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 39, sentence 61
Still, the animal was quiet enough, so Peder got safely to market on its back.
Who acts: animal, Peder · What happens: be, get · To what, where: market, back
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 (animal, Peder), 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 | Still | still | ADV | _ | 6 quiet | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Still | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 animal | det |
| 4 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 quiet | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 quiet | cop |
| 6 | quiet | quiet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 6 quiet | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 got | punct |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 11 got | advmod |
| 10 | Peder | Peder | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 got | nsubj |
| 11 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 quiet | parataxis |
| 12 | safely | safely | ADV | _ | 11 got | advmod |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 market | mark |
| 14 | market | market | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 got | obl |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 back | case |
| 16 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 back | nmod:poss |
| 17 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 got | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 quiet | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the animal | still | enough, quiet property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | get | past | Peder | market | animal's back | safely property | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent on back=Source |
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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