The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 5, sentence 7
At that he rose to his feet, and gathering up his strength mightily, he seized the chain, and this time he shook it so that three links broke.
Who acts: man, three links · What happens: rise, gather up, seize, shake, break · To what, where: that, strength, chain
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 (man, three 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 that | case |
| 2 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 rose | obl |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 rose | nsubj |
| 4 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 feet | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 feet | nmod:poss |
| 7 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 rose | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 seized | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 seized | cc |
| 10 | gathering | gather | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 seized | advcl |
| 11 | up | up | ADP | _ | 10 gathering | compound:prt |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 strength | nmod:poss |
| 13 | strength | strength | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 gathering | obj |
| 14 | mightily | mightily | ADV | _ | 10 gathering | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 gathering | punct |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 seized | nsubj |
| 17 | seized | seize | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 rose | conj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 chain | det |
| 19 | chain | chain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 seized | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 shook | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 shook | cc |
| 22 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 23 time | det |
| 23 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 shook | obl:unmarked |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 shook | nsubj |
| 25 | shook | shake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 rose | conj |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 shook | obj |
| 27 | so | so | SCONJ | _ | 31 broke | mark |
| 28 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 31 broke | mark |
| 29 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 30 links | nummod |
| 30 | links | link | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 broke | nsubj |
| 31 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 shook | advcl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 rose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rise | past | man | that | to man's feet | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at that=Location | |||
| 2 | gather up | gerund | man not said here | man's strength | mightily property | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent strength=Theme | |||
| 3 | seize | past | man | the chain | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chain=Theme | ||||
| 4 | shake | past | man | chain | time | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=Patient | |||
| 5 | break | past | three links | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
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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