The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 5, sentence 92
So together they went till they reached the cave, and one of the men entered, to see what should be found there.
Who acts: spears, one · What happens: go, reach, enter, see, find · To what, where: cave · 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 (spears, one), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 went | advmod |
| 2 | together | together | ADV | _ | 4 went | advmod |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 7 reached | mark |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 reached | nsubj |
| 7 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | advcl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 cave | det |
| 9 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 reached | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 entered | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 entered | cc |
| 12 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 entered | nsubj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 men | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 men | det |
| 15 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 one | nmod |
| 16 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 see | punct |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 see | mark |
| 19 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 entered | advcl |
| 20 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 23 found | obj |
| 21 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 found | aux |
| 22 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 23 found | aux:pass |
| 23 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 see | ccomp |
| 24 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 23 found | advmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | spears = spear | together property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | reach | past | spears = spear | the cave | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent cave=Theme | ||||
| 3 | enter | past | one of the men | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | see | to-infinitive | one of the men not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | find | should · passive | there | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: what=Topic |
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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