The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 4, sentence 15

Laying his finger on his nose, in token of silence, he signed to Isuro to get up and follow him, and it was not until they were some distance from the hut that Gudu spoke.

Who acts: Gudu, finger · What happens: lay, sign, get up, follow, not be, speak · To what, where: finger, nose, Isuro, Gudu, hut · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Gudu, finger), 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	Laying	lay	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 signed	advcl
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 finger	nmod:poss
3	finger	finger	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Laying	obj
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 nose	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 nose	nmod:poss
6	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Laying	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 token	punct
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 token	case
9	token	token	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Laying	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 silence	case
11	silence	silence	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 token	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Laying	punct
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 signed	nsubj
14	signed	sign	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	to	to	ADP	_	16 Isuro	case
16	Isuro	Isuro	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 signed	obl
17	to	to	PART	_	18 get	mark
18	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 signed	advcl
19	up	up	ADP	_	18 get	compound:prt
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 follow	cc
21	follow	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 get	conj
22	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 follow	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 distance	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 distance	cc
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 distance	nsubj
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 distance	cop
27	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	32 distance	advmod
28	until	until	ADP	_	32 distance	case
29	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 distance	nsubj
30	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 distance	cop
31	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	32 distance	det
32	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 signed	obl
33	from	from	ADP	_	35 hut	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 hut	det
35	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 distance	nmod
36	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	38 spoke	obj
37	Gudu	Gudu	PROPN	Number=Sing	38 spoke	nsubj
38	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 hut	acl:relcl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 signed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lay	gerund	Gudu not said here	Gudu's finger		Gudu's nose		in token of silence	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent finger=Theme on nose=Destination
2	sign	past	Gudu		Isuro				vn instr_communication-37.4.1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Agent to isuro=Recipient
3	get up	to-infinitive	Gudu not said here						vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
4	follow	infinitive	Gudu not said here	Gudu					vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
5	not is	past	finger			the hut	until some distance		tree rules
6	speak speech: other	past	Gudu	the hut					tree rules

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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