The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 5, sentence 90
But he kept his counsel and spake nothing, only he pulled out the spears, and the men sat up and said:
Who acts: Ian, men · What happens: keep, pull out, sit up, say · To what, where: counsel, spears · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Ian, men), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 kept | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 kept | nsubj |
| 3 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 counsel | nmod:poss |
| 5 | counsel | counsel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 kept | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 nothing | cc |
| 7 | spake | speak | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 nothing | amod |
| 8 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 5 counsel | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 pulled | punct |
| 10 | only | only | ADV | _ | 12 pulled | advmod |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 pulled | nsubj |
| 12 | pulled | pull | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 kept | conj |
| 13 | out | out | ADP | _ | 12 pulled | compound:prt |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 spears | det |
| 15 | spears | spear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 pulled | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 sat | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 sat | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 men | det |
| 19 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 sat | nsubj |
| 20 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 kept | parataxis |
| 21 | up | up | ADP | _ | 20 sat | compound:prt |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 said | cc |
| 23 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 sat | conj |
| 24 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 3 kept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | past | Ian | Ian's counsel | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent counsel=Theme | ||||
| 2 | pull out | past | Ian | the spears | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | sit up | past | the men | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | the men not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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