The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 4, sentence 126
Ian did as the raven bade him, and in spite of the eldest daughter's entreaties, he set out to seek her next sister.
Who acts: Ian, man · What happens: do, set out, seek, spite · To what, where: raven bade, spite, next sister, entreaties
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ian, man), 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 | Ian | Ian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 did | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | as | as | ADP | _ | 6 bade | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 bade | det |
| 5 | raven | raven | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 bade | amod |
| 6 | bade | bade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 did | obj |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 bade | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 set | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 set | cc |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 spite | case |
| 11 | spite | spite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 set | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 entreaties | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 daughter | det |
| 14 | eldest | eld | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 15 daughter | amod |
| 15 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 entreaties | nmod:poss |
| 16 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 15 daughter | case |
| 17 | entreaties | entreaty | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 spite | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 spite | punct |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 set | nsubj |
| 20 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 did | conj |
| 21 | out | out | ADP | _ | 20 set | compound:prt |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 seek | mark |
| 23 | seek | seek | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 set | advcl |
| 24 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 sister | nmod:poss |
| 25 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 sister | amod |
| 26 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 seek | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | Ian | the raven bade | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bade=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | set out | past | man | spite of the eldest daughter's entreaties | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | seek | to-infinitive | man not said here | door's next sister | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sister=Theme | ||||
| 4 | spite | the eldest daughter's entreaties | nom spite «feeling transitive»: of=patient |
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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