The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 5, sentence 116
Filled with shame at being once more proved heedless, Ian arose and did as the horse bade him.
Who acts: Ian · What happens: fill, be, arise, do · To what, where: proved heedless, horse bade
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 (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 | Filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 2 | with | with | ADP | _ | 3 shame | case |
| 3 | shame | shame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Filled | obl |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 heedless | case |
| 5 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 heedless | cop |
| 6 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 9 heedless | advmod |
| 7 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 8 proved | advmod |
| 8 | proved | proved | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 heedless | amod |
| 9 | heedless | heedless | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Filled | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 arose | punct |
| 11 | Ian | Ian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 arose | nsubj |
| 12 | arose | arise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 heedless | acl:relcl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 did | cc |
| 14 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 arose | conj |
| 15 | as | as | ADP | _ | 18 bade | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 bade | det |
| 17 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 bade | compound |
| 18 | bade | bade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 did | obj |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 bade | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Filled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fill | participle | with shame | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with shame=Instrument | |||||
| 2 | is | gerund | proved heedless | once property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | arise | past | Ian | proved heedless not said here | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location heedless=Theme | ||||
| 4 | do | past | Ian not said here | the horse bade | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bade=Eventuality |
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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