The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 6, sentence 48
In the summer mornings they led out their flocks to pasture, and were happy and contented from sunrise to sunset.
Who acts: villagers · What happens: lead out, pasture, be, content · To what, where: flocks
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 (villagers), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 mornings | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 mornings | det |
| 3 | summer | summer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 mornings | compound |
| 4 | mornings | morning | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 led | obl |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 led | nsubj |
| 6 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | out | out | ADP | _ | 6 led | compound:prt |
| 8 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 flocks | nmod:poss |
| 9 | flocks | flock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 led | obj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 pasture | mark |
| 11 | pasture | pasture | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 led | advcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 happy | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 happy | cc |
| 14 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 happy | cop |
| 15 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 led | parataxis |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 contented | cc |
| 17 | contented | content | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 happy | conj |
| 18 | from | from | ADP | _ | 19 sunrise | case |
| 19 | sunrise | sunrise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 contented | obl |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 sunset | case |
| 21 | sunset | sunset | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 sunrise | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 led | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lead out | past | villagers = villager | villagers's flocks | morning | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flock=Theme | |||
| 2 | pasture | to-infinitive | villagers = villager not said here | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | past | happy property | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | content | participle | sunrise | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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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