The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 5, sentence 110
And so it fell out; and when the sixteen stable-boys saw that he would drink nothing, they drank it all themselves, and one by one lay stretched around the board.
Who acts: kind, sixteen stable boys, Ian, boys · What happens: fall out, see, drink, stretch · To what, where: nothing, kind, one, board · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (kind, sixteen stable boys, Ian, boys), 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 fell | cc |
| 2 | so | so | ADV | _ | 4 fell | advmod |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 fell | nsubj |
| 4 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 4 fell | compound:prt |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 saw | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 saw | cc |
| 8 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 14 saw | advmod |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 boys | det |
| 10 | sixteen | sixteen | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 boys | nummod |
| 11 | stable | stable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 boys | amod |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 stable | punct |
| 13 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 saw | nsubj |
| 14 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 fell | conj |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 drink | mark |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 drink | nsubj |
| 17 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 drink | aux |
| 18 | drink | drink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 saw | ccomp |
| 19 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 18 drink | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 drank | punct |
| 21 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 drank | nsubj |
| 22 | drank | drink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 fell | conj |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 drank | obj |
| 24 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 23 it | det |
| 25 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 22 drank | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 stretched | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 stretched | cc |
| 28 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 32 stretched | nsubj:pass |
| 29 | by | by | ADP | _ | 30 one | case |
| 30 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 28 one | nmod |
| 31 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 stretched | aux:pass |
| 32 | stretched | stretch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 fell | conj |
| 33 | around | around | ADP | _ | 35 board | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 board | det |
| 35 | board | board | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 stretched | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall out | past | kind | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | see | past | the sixteen stable boys | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | drink | would | Ian | nothing | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient | ||||
| 4 | drink | past | boys = boy | kind | boys = boy obl | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | |||
| 5 | stretch | past · passive | one by one | the board | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient |
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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