The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 6, sentence 32
The sun was high in the heavens when he woke again, and this time he beheld a tall, brown- haired youth standing by him.
Who acts: sun, Ian, tall haired youth · What happens: be, wake, behold, stand · To what, where: heavens, tall haired youth
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 (sun, Ian, tall haired youth), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 sun | det |
| 2 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 high | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 high | cop |
| 4 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 heavens | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 heavens | det |
| 7 | heavens | heaven | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 high | obl |
| 8 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 woke | advmod |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 woke | nsubj |
| 10 | woke | wake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 high | advcl |
| 11 | again | again | ADV | _ | 10 woke | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 beheld | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 beheld | cc |
| 14 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 time | det |
| 15 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 beheld | obl:unmarked |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 beheld | nsubj |
| 17 | beheld | behold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 high | parataxis |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 youth | det |
| 19 | tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 youth | amod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 tall | punct |
| 21 | brown | brown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 haired | amod |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 brown | punct |
| 23 | haired | haired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 youth | amod |
| 24 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 beheld | obj |
| 25 | standing | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 24 youth | acl |
| 26 | by | by | ADP | _ | 27 him | case |
| 27 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 standing | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 high | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the sun | the heavens | high property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | wake | past | Ian | again | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | behold | past | Ian | a tall haired youth | time | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer youth=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | stand | gerund | a tall haired youth not said here | by Ian | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by he=Location |
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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