The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 4, sentence 71
They had none of them ever seen that land before, and looked about them.
Who acts: brothers · What happens: have, see, look · To what, where: none, land
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 (brothers), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 had | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 2 had | obj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 them | case |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 none | nmod |
| 6 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 7 seen | advmod |
| 7 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 had | advcl |
| 8 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 land | det |
| 9 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 seen | obj |
| 10 | before | before | ADV | _ | 7 seen | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 looked | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 looked | cc |
| 13 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 had | conj |
| 14 | about | about | ADP | _ | 15 them | case |
| 15 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 looked | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | brothers = brother | none | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent none=Patient | ||||
| 2 | see | participle | brothers = brother not said here | that land | ever | before property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer land=Stimulus | ||
| 3 | look | past | brothers = brother not said here | about brothers = brother | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent about they=Theme |
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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