The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 4, sentence 47
But Isuro knew of a hole under the wood-pile, and when the fire was kindled he ran into the hole, but Gudu died there.
Who acts: Isuro, Gudu · What happens: know, kindle, run, die · To what, where: fire, hole
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, Gudu), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 knew | cc |
| 2 | Isuro | Isuro | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 knew | nsubj |
| 3 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 hole | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 hole | det |
| 6 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 knew | obl |
| 7 | under | under | ADP | _ | 11 pile | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 pile | det |
| 9 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 pile | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 wood | punct |
| 11 | pile | pile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 hole | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 kindled | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 kindled | cc |
| 14 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 18 kindled | advmod |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 fire | det |
| 16 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 kindled | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 kindled | aux:pass |
| 18 | kindled | kindle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 knew | conj |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 ran | nsubj |
| 20 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 kindled | ccomp |
| 21 | into | into | ADP | _ | 23 hole | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 hole | det |
| 23 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 ran | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 died | punct |
| 25 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 27 died | cc |
| 26 | Gudu | Gudu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 died | nsubj |
| 27 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 knew | conj |
| 28 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 27 died | advmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 knew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | past | Isuro | of a hole under the wood pile | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of hole=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | kindle | past · passive | the fire | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | run | past | Isuro | into the hole result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into hole=Result | ||||
| 4 | die | past | Gudu | there | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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