The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 5, sentence 44
And if he has reached me, then he has left my two brothers dead behind him.'
Who acts: Ian · What happens: reach, leave · To what, where: me
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 | _ | 5 reached | cc |
| 2 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 reached | mark |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 reached | nsubj |
| 4 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 reached | aux |
| 5 | reached | reach | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 reached | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 left | punct |
| 8 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 left | advmod |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 left | nsubj |
| 10 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 left | aux |
| 11 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 reached | conj |
| 12 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 13 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 brothers | nummod |
| 14 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 dead | nsubj |
| 15 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 left | advcl |
| 16 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 17 him | case |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 left | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 reached | punct |
| 19 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 reached | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | present · perfect | Ian | me | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent i=Theme | ||||
| 2 | leave | present · perfect | Ian | then | behind giant | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent behind he=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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