The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 5, sentence 79
And on the morrow he did, and he bade Ian go to the giant's stable where stood a horse to whom it mattered nothing if she journeyed over land or sea.
Who acts: counsel, Ian, it, horse · What happens: do, bade, go, stand, matter, journey · To what, where: morrow, stable, horse, nothing, land
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 (counsel, Ian, it, horse), 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 | _ | 6 did | cc |
| 2 | on | on | ADP | _ | 4 morrow | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 morrow | det |
| 4 | morrow | morrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 did | obl |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 did | nsubj |
| 6 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 bade | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 bade | cc |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 bade | nsubj |
| 10 | bade | bade | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 did | parataxis |
| 11 | Ian | Ian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 go | nsubj |
| 12 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 bade | ccomp |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 stable | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 giant | det |
| 15 | giant | giant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 stable | nmod:poss |
| 16 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 15 giant | case |
| 17 | stable | stable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 go | obl |
| 18 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 19 stood | advmod |
| 19 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 stable | advcl |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 horse | det |
| 21 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 stood | obj |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 whom | case |
| 23 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 stood | obl |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 mattered | nsubj |
| 25 | mattered | matter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 whom | acl:relcl |
| 26 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 25 mattered | obj |
| 27 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 29 journeyed | mark |
| 28 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 journeyed | nsubj |
| 29 | journeyed | journey | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 mattered | advcl |
| 30 | over | over | ADP | _ | 31 land | case |
| 31 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 journeyed | obl |
| 32 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 33 sea | cc |
| 33 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 land | conj |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | counsel | the morrow | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | bade | past | counsel | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | go | infinitive | Ian | the giant's stable | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to stable=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | stand | past | Ian not said here | a horse | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer horse=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | matter | past | it | nothing | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | journey a condition, not said to happen | past | horse | land or sea | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over land=Trajectory |
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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