The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 5, sentence 40
And Ian went out, and gave such a pull to the chain that he fell down at full length from the force of the shake.
Who acts: Ian · What happens: go out, give, fall down · To what, where: pull, chain, full length
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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 went | cc |
| 2 | Ian | Ian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 3 went | compound:prt |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 gave | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 gave | cc |
| 7 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 8 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 10 pull | det:predet |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 pull | det |
| 10 | pull | pull | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 gave | obj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 chain | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 chain | det |
| 13 | chain | chain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 gave | obl |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 fell | mark |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 fell | nsubj |
| 16 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 gave | advcl |
| 17 | down | down | ADV | _ | 16 fell | advmod |
| 18 | at | at | ADP | _ | 20 length | case |
| 19 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 length | amod |
| 20 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 fell | obl |
| 21 | from | from | ADP | _ | 23 force | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 force | det |
| 23 | force | force | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 length | nmod |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 shake | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 shake | det |
| 26 | shake | shake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 force | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go out | past | Ian | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | give | past | Ian not said here | such pull | the chain | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent pull=Theme to chain=Recipient | |||
| 3 | fall down | past | Ian | full length from the force of the shake | down property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at length=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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