The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 4, sentence 60
'Nay, for he is in sorrow, and he will think of the games that we have played there when his daughters looked on.'
Who acts: grass, daughters · What happens: be, think, play, look on · To what, where: games
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 (grass, daughters), 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 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 sorrow | punct |
| 2 | Nay | nay | INTJ | _ | 8 sorrow | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 sorrow | punct |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 sorrow | case |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 sorrow | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 sorrow | cop |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 sorrow | case |
| 8 | sorrow | sorrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 think | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 think | cc |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 think | nsubj |
| 12 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 think | aux |
| 13 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 sorrow | conj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 games | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 games | det |
| 16 | games | game | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 think | obl |
| 17 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 played | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 played | nsubj |
| 19 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 played | aux |
| 20 | played | play | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 games | acl |
| 21 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 20 played | advmod |
| 22 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 25 looked | advmod |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 daughters | nmod:poss |
| 24 | daughters | daughter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 looked | nsubj |
| 25 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 played | conj |
| 26 | on | on | ADP | _ | 25 looked | compound:prt |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 sorrow | punct |
| 28 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 sorrow | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | grass | for sorrow | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | future | grass | of the games | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | play | present · perfect · passive | the games | there | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 4 | look on | past | grass's daughters | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
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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