The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 39, sentence 74
So he gave the animal in charge to the old man, and went home with his two thousand dollars.
Who acts: Peder · What happens: give, go · To what, where: animal, old man, charge
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 (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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 gave | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 gave | nsubj |
| 3 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 animal | det |
| 5 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gave | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 charge | case |
| 7 | charge | charge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gave | obl |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 man | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 man | det |
| 10 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 man | amod |
| 11 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gave | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 went | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 went | cc |
| 14 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 gave | conj |
| 15 | home | home | ADV | _ | 14 went | advmod |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 dollars | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 dollars | nmod:poss |
| 18 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 thousand | compound |
| 19 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 dollars | nummod |
| 20 | dollars | dollar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 went | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | Peder | the animal | the old man | charge | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent animal=Theme to man=Recipient | ||
| 2 | go | past | Peder not said here | with Peder's thousand dollars; home property | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with dollar=Beneficiary |
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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