The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 5, sentence 65
Together they all rode to the edge of the rock, and then Ian lay down and shouted, and the basket was drawn up, and in it they got one by one, and were let down to the bottom.
Who acts: asses, Ian, basket · What happens: ride, lie down, shout, draw up, get, let down · To what, where: edge, basket, one, bottom
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 (asses, Ian, basket), 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 | Together | together | ADV | _ | 4 rode | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 rode | nsubj |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 rode | advmod |
| 4 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 edge | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 edge | det |
| 7 | edge | edge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 rode | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 rock | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 rock | det |
| 10 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 edge | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 lay | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 lay | cc |
| 13 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 lay | advmod |
| 14 | Ian | Ian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 lay | nsubj |
| 15 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 rode | parataxis |
| 16 | down | down | ADV | _ | 15 lay | advmod |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 shouted | cc |
| 18 | shouted | shout | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 lay | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 drawn | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 drawn | cc |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 basket | det |
| 22 | basket | basket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 drawn | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 drawn | aux:pass |
| 24 | drawn | draw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 rode | conj |
| 25 | up | up | ADP | _ | 24 drawn | compound:prt |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 got | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 got | cc |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 it | case |
| 29 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 got | nsubj |
| 30 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 got | nsubj |
| 31 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 rode | conj |
| 32 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 31 got | obj |
| 33 | by | by | ADP | _ | 34 one | case |
| 34 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 32 one | nmod |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 let | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 let | cc |
| 37 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 let | aux:pass |
| 38 | let | let | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 rode | conj |
| 39 | down | down | ADP | _ | 38 let | compound:prt |
| 40 | to | to | ADP | _ | 42 bottom | case |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 bottom | det |
| 42 | bottom | bottom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 let | obl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 rode | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ride | past | asses = ass | the edge of the rock | together property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to edge=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | lie down | past | Ian | then | down property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | shout speech: express | past | Ian not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | draw up | past · passive | the basket | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 5 | get | past | basket | one | by one | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer one=Stimulus | |||
| 6 | let down | past · passive | asses = ass not said here | the bottom | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: to bottom=Recipient |
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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