The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 5, sentence 68
Long he waited, but wait as he might, the basket never came back, for in their joy at being free the knight's daughters had forgotten all about Ian, and had set sail in the ship that had brought him and his brothers to the land of Grianaig.
Who acts: accident, basket, daughters, asses · What happens: wait, not come back, be, forget, have, set · To what, where: set sail, ship
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 (accident, basket, daughters, asses), 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 | Long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 waited | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 waited | nsubj |
| 3 | waited | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 wait | punct |
| 5 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 wait | cc |
| 6 | wait | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres Typo=Yes VerbForm=Fin | 3 waited | conj |
| 7 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 9 might | mark |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 might | nsubj |
| 9 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 wait | advcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 came | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 basket | det |
| 12 | basket | basket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 came | nsubj |
| 13 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 14 came | advmod |
| 14 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 waited | conj |
| 15 | back | back | ADV | _ | 14 came | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 joy | punct |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 joy | case |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 joy | case |
| 19 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 joy | nmod:poss |
| 20 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 came | obl |
| 21 | at | at | ADP | _ | 23 free | case |
| 22 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 23 free | cop |
| 23 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 joy | amod |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 knight | det |
| 25 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 daughters | nmod:poss |
| 26 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 25 knight | case |
| 27 | daughters | daughter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 forgotten | nsubj |
| 28 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 forgotten | aux |
| 29 | forgotten | forget | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 23 free | parataxis |
| 30 | all | all | ADV | _ | 32 Ian | advmod |
| 31 | about | about | ADP | _ | 32 Ian | case |
| 32 | Ian | Ian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 forgotten | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 had | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 had | cc |
| 35 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 waited | conj |
| 36 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 37 sail | amod |
| 37 | sail | sail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 had | obj |
| 38 | in | in | ADP | _ | 40 ship | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 ship | det |
| 40 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 had | obl |
| 41 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 43 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 42 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 43 brought | aux |
| 43 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 40 ship | acl:relcl |
| 44 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 brought | obj |
| 45 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 47 brothers | cc |
| 46 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 47 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 47 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 44 him | conj |
| 48 | to | to | ADP | _ | 50 land | case |
| 49 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 50 land | det |
| 50 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 brought | obl |
| 51 | of | of | ADP | _ | 52 Grianaig | case |
| 52 | Grianaig | Grianaig | PROPN | Number=Sing | 50 land | nmod |
| 53 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 waited | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | past | accident | long property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | wait | present | accident not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | not come back | past | the basket | for asses's joy | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is | gerund | free property | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | forget | past · perfect | the knight's daughters | about Ian | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | have | past | accident not said here | set sail | the ship | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sail=Patient | |||
| 7 | set | participle | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 8 | bring | past · perfect · passive | the ship | to the land of Grianaig | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme he=Destination | ||||
| 9 | joy | asses = ass | nom joy «feeling transitive»: poss=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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