The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 6, sentence 49
One summer night, when a round full moon shone down upon the white road, a great wolf came trotting round the corner.
Who acts: round full moon, great wolf · What happens: shine down, come, trot · To what, where: white road, corner
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 (round full moon, great 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 night | nummod |
| 2 | summer | summer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 night | compound |
| 3 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 shone | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 night | punct |
| 5 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 shone | advmod |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 moon | det |
| 7 | round | round | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 moon | amod |
| 8 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 moon | amod |
| 9 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 shone | nsubj |
| 10 | shone | shine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | down | down | ADV | _ | 10 shone | advmod |
| 12 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 15 road | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 road | det |
| 14 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 road | amod |
| 15 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 shone | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 came | punct |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 wolf | det |
| 18 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 wolf | amod |
| 19 | wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 came | nsubj |
| 20 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 shone | conj |
| 21 | trotting | trot | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 came | xcomp |
| 22 | round | round | ADP | _ | 24 corner | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 corner | det |
| 24 | corner | corner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 trotting | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 shone | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shine down | past | a round full moon | the white road | night | down property | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon road=Location | ||
| 2 | come | past | a great wolf | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | trot | gerund | a great wolf not said here | the corner | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme round corner=Trajectory |
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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