The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 6, sentence 106
And she signed to the wolf to curl himself up in the shadow beside her.
Who acts: moon · What happens: sign, curl up · To what, where: wolf, shadow
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (moon), 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 signed | cc |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 signed | nsubj |
| 3 | signed | sign | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 wolf | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 wolf | det |
| 6 | wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 signed | obl |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 curl | mark |
| 8 | curl | curl | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 signed | advcl |
| 9 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 8 curl | obj |
| 10 | up | up | ADP | _ | 8 curl | compound:prt |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 shadow | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 shadow | det |
| 13 | shadow | shadow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 curl | obl |
| 14 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 15 her | case |
| 15 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 curl | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 signed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sign | past | moon | the wolf | vn instr_communication-37.4.1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Agent to wolf=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | curl up | to-infinitive | moon not said here | Wolf | the shadow | beside moon | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Patient |
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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