The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 5, sentence 41
But in a moment he was on his feet again, and seized the chain with so much strength that four links came off in his hand.
Who acts: Ian, four links · What happens: be, seize, come off · To what, where: feet, chain, much strength, hand
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, four links), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 seized | cc |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 moment | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 moment | det |
| 4 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 seized | obl |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 feet | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 feet | cop |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 feet | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 feet | nmod:poss |
| 9 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 moment | nmod |
| 10 | again | again | ADV | _ | 9 feet | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 seized | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 seized | cc |
| 13 | seized | seize | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 chain | det |
| 15 | chain | chain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 seized | obj |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 strength | case |
| 17 | so | so | ADV | _ | 18 much | advmod |
| 18 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 strength | amod |
| 19 | strength | strength | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 seized | obl |
| 20 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 came | obl |
| 21 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 links | nummod |
| 22 | links | link | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 came | nsubj |
| 23 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 strength | acl:relcl |
| 24 | off | off | ADP | _ | 23 came | compound:prt |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 hand | case |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 hand | nmod:poss |
| 27 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 came | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 seized | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Ian | Ian's feet | again | tree rules | |||
| 2 | seize | past | the chain | moment | with much strength | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chain=Theme | |||
| 3 | come off | past | four links | much strength | Ian's hand | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in hand=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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