The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 4, sentence 35
And he danced forward, and turned head over heels, and shook himself before them all.
Who acts: Isuro · What happens: dance, turn, shake · To what, where: head, heels, Isuro
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 (Isuro), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 danced | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 danced | nsubj |
| 3 | danced | dance | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 3 danced | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 turned | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 turned | cc |
| 7 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 danced | conj |
| 8 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 turned | obj |
| 9 | over | over | ADP | _ | 10 heels | case |
| 10 | heels | heel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 turned | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 shook | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 shook | cc |
| 13 | shook | shake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 danced | conj |
| 14 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 13 shook | obj |
| 15 | before | before | ADP | _ | 16 them | case |
| 16 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 shook | obl |
| 17 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 them | nmod:unmarked |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 danced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dance | past | Isuro | forward property | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | turn | past | Isuro not said here | head | heels | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent head=Theme over heel=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | shake | past | Isuro not said here | Isuro | before heels = heel | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent himself=Theme before they=Trajectory |
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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