The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 5, sentence 122
Next he sprinkled the water over the heroes, who came to life again, and together they all journeyed to the other side of the island, and there the raven met them.
Who acts: Ian, heroes, raven · What happens: sprinkle, come, journey, meet · To what, where: water, heroes, life, other side
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, heroes, raven), 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 | Next | next | ADV | _ | 3 sprinkled | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 sprinkled | nsubj |
| 3 | sprinkled | sprinkle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 water | det |
| 5 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sprinkled | obj |
| 6 | over | over | ADP | _ | 8 heroes | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 heroes | det |
| 8 | heroes | hero | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 sprinkled | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 came | punct |
| 10 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 came | nsubj |
| 11 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sprinkled | conj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 life | case |
| 13 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 came | obl |
| 14 | again | again | ADV | _ | 11 came | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 journeyed | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 journeyed | cc |
| 17 | together | together | ADV | _ | 20 journeyed | advmod |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 journeyed | nsubj |
| 19 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 journeyed | advmod |
| 20 | journeyed | journey | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sprinkled | conj |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 side | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 side | det |
| 23 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 side | amod |
| 24 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 journeyed | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 island | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 island | det |
| 27 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 side | nmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 met | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 met | cc |
| 30 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 33 met | expl |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 raven | det |
| 32 | raven | raven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 met | nsubj |
| 33 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sprinkled | conj |
| 34 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 met | obj |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sprinkled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sprinkle | past | Ian | the water | the heroes | next property | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent water=Theme over hero=Destination | ||
| 2 | come | past | life | again | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to life=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | journey | past | heroes = hero | the other side of the island | together property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to side=Destination | |||
| 4 | meet | past | the raven | heroes = hero | there | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Co-Agent |
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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