The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 5, sentence 97
And Ian turned away with a sinking heart, for he would fain have followed the youngest daughter of the knight of Grianaig.
Who acts: Ian · What happens: turn away, follow · To what, where: youngest daughter
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), 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 | _ | 3 turned | cc |
| 2 | Ian | Ian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 turned | nsubj |
| 3 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | away | away | ADV | _ | 3 turned | advmod |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 heart | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 heart | det |
| 7 | sinking | sinking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 heart | compound |
| 8 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 turned | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 followed | punct |
| 10 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 12 would | mark |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 would | nsubj |
| 12 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 followed | aux |
| 13 | fain | fain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 would | xcomp |
| 14 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 followed | aux |
| 15 | followed | follow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 turned | conj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 daughter | det |
| 17 | youngest | young | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 18 daughter | amod |
| 18 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 followed | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 knight | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 knight | det |
| 21 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 daughter | nmod |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 Grianaig | case |
| 23 | Grianaig | Grianaig | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 knight | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn away | past | Ian | with a sinking heart; away property | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | follow | would · perfect | Ian not said here | the youngest daughter of the knight of Grianaig | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Theme |
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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