The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 4, sentence 72
Then they saw that, a short way from them, a number of men were working on a rock, with one man standing over them.
Who acts: brothers, number, one man · What happens: see, work, stand · To what, where: that · 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 (brothers, number, one man), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 saw | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 saw | nsubj |
| 3 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 saw | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 way | punct |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 way | det |
| 7 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 way | amod |
| 8 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 saw | obl |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 them | case |
| 10 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 way | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 number | punct |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 number | det |
| 13 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 working | nsubj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 men | case |
| 15 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 number | nmod |
| 16 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 working | aux |
| 17 | working | work | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 saw | ccomp |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 rock | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 rock | det |
| 20 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 working | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 man | punct |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 man | case |
| 23 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 24 man | nummod |
| 24 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 working | obl |
| 25 | standing | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 24 man | acl |
| 26 | over | over | ADP | _ | 27 them | case |
| 27 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 standing | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | brothers = brother | that | then | a short way from food obl | tree rules | ||
| 2 | work | past · progressive | a number of men | with one man; on a rock | vn cooperate-73.1-3 «NP V PP.co-agent PP.theme»: agent=Agent on rock=Theme with man=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | stand | gerund | one man not said here | over brothers = brother | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over they=Location |
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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