The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 4, sentence 99

'He is on the hunting hill,' answered she; 'and nought will bring him home save a shake of the iron chain which hangs outside the gate.

Who acts: Son, hunting hill, nought, iron chain · What happens: be, answer, bring, save, hang · To what, where: hunting hill, bird, Son, shake, gate

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 (Son, hunting hill, nought, iron chain), 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	_	7 hill	punct
2	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 hill	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 hill	cop
4	on	on	ADP	_	7 hill	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 hill	det
6	hunting	hunting	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hill	compound
7	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 answered	nsubj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 hill	punct
9	'	'	PUNCT	_	7 hill	punct
10	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 answered	obj
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 answered	punct
13	'	'	PUNCT	_	10 answered	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 bring	cc
15	nought	nought	PRON	PronType=Neg	17 bring	nsubj
16	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 bring	aux
17	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 answered	conj
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 bring	obj
19	home	home	ADV	_	20 save	advmod
20	save	save	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 bring	advcl
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 shake	det
22	shake	shake	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 save	obj
23	of	of	ADP	_	26 chain	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 chain	det
25	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 chain	compound
26	chain	chain	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 shake	nmod
27	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 hangs	nsubj
28	hangs	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 chain	acl:relcl
29	outside	outside	ADP	_	31 gate	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 gate	det
31	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 hangs	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	Son			the hunting hill		tree rules
2	answer speech: assert	past	the hunting hill		bird			vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent she=Eventuality
3	bring	future	nought		Son			vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination
4	save	present	nought not said here	a shake of the iron chain			home property	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shake=Theme
5	hang	present	the iron chain			the gate		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent outside gate=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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