The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 6, sentence 109
'I am lighter than he is,' thought the fox to herself, 'and perhaps if I make haste I can get a start, and jump over the wall on the other side before he manages to spring over this one.'
Who acts: I, Wolf · What happens: be, think, make, get, jump, manage · To what, where: fox, moon, haste, start, wall
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 (I, Wolf), 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 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 lighter | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 lighter | nsubj |
| 3 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 lighter | cop |
| 4 | lighter | light | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 5 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 7 is | mark |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 is | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 lighter | advcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 thought | punct |
| 9 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 thought | punct |
| 10 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 lighter | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 fox | det |
| 12 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 thought | obj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 herself | case |
| 14 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 10 thought | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 lighter | punct |
| 16 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 lighter | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 make | cc |
| 18 | perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 21 make | advmod |
| 19 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 21 make | mark |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 make | nsubj |
| 21 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 lighter | conj |
| 22 | haste | haste | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 make | obj |
| 23 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 get | nsubj |
| 24 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 get | aux |
| 25 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 make | parataxis |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 start | det |
| 27 | start | start | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 get | obj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 jump | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 jump | cc |
| 30 | jump | jump | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 get | conj |
| 31 | over | over | ADP | _ | 33 wall | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 wall | det |
| 33 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 jump | obl |
| 34 | on | on | ADP | _ | 37 side | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 side | det |
| 36 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 side | amod |
| 37 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 jump | obl |
| 38 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 40 manages | mark |
| 39 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 manages | nsubj |
| 40 | manages | manage | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 jump | advcl |
| 41 | to | to | ADP | _ | 42 spring | case |
| 42 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 manages | obl |
| 43 | over | over | ADP | _ | 45 one | case |
| 44 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 45 one | det |
| 45 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 manages | obl |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 lighter | punct |
| 47 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 lighter | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | I | light property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | present | Wolf | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | think speech: other | past | I not said here | the fox | moon | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot fox=Theme | |||
| 4 | make a condition, not said to happen | present | I | haste | perhaps property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent haste=Product | |||
| 5 | get | can | I | a start | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer start=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | jump | infinitive | I not said here | the wall | on the other side | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over wall=Trajectory | |||
| 7 | manage | present | Wolf | spring | over this one | vn succeed-74-1-1 «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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