The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 5, sentence 88
Many strange things did Ian behold in that island, more than he had thought for.
Who acts: Many strange things, Ian · What happens: behold, think · To what, where: island
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 (Many strange things, 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 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 things | amod |
| 2 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 things | amod |
| 3 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 behold | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 behold | aux |
| 5 | Ian | Ian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 behold | nsubj |
| 6 | behold | behold | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 island | case |
| 8 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 island | det |
| 9 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 behold | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 more | punct |
| 11 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 9 island | amod |
| 12 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 15 thought | mark |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 thought | nsubj |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 thought | aux |
| 15 | thought | think | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 more | advcl |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 thought | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 behold | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | behold | past · do-support | Many strange things | that island | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past · perfect | Ian | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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