The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 4, sentence 85
And the men pulled with all their might, and in another moment Ian was on top, and the raven behind him.
Who acts: men, Ian · What happens: pull, be · To what, where: raven, top
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 (men, Ian), 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 | _ | 4 pulled | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 men | det |
| 3 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 pulled | nsubj |
| 4 | pulled | pull | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 8 might | mark |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 might | det:predet |
| 7 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 might | nmod:poss |
| 8 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 pulled | advcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 top | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 top | cc |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 moment | case |
| 12 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 13 moment | det |
| 13 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 top | obl |
| 14 | Ian | Ian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 top | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 top | cop |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 top | case |
| 17 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 pulled | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 raven | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 raven | cc |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 raven | det |
| 21 | raven | raven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 pulled | obl |
| 22 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 23 him | case |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 raven | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 pulled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pull | participle | the men | the raven behind raven | vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | past | Ian | top | moment | tree rules |
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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