The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 6, sentence 6
Then Ian drew his sword as she bade him, and cut off her head, and went on his way without looking backwards.
Who acts: Ian, horse · What happens: draw, bade, cut off, go, look · To what, where: sword, Ian, head, way
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 (Ian, horse), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 drew | advmod |
| 2 | Ian | Ian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 drew | nsubj |
| 3 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 sword | nmod:poss |
| 5 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 drew | obj |
| 6 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 8 bade | mark |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 bade | nsubj |
| 8 | bade | bade | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 drew | conj |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 bade | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 cut | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 cut | cc |
| 12 | cut | cut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 bade | parataxis |
| 13 | off | off | ADP | _ | 15 head | case |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 head | nmod:poss |
| 15 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 cut | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 went | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 went | cc |
| 18 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 drew | conj |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 way | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 way | nmod:poss |
| 21 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 went | obl |
| 22 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 23 looking | mark |
| 23 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 went | advcl |
| 24 | backwards | backwards | ADV | _ | 23 looking | advmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 drew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | draw | past | Ian | Ian's sword | then | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sword=Theme | |||
| 2 | bade | past | horse | Ian | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | cut off | participle | horse's head | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector head=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | go | past | Ian not said here | Ian's way | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on way=Location | ||||
| 5 | look | gerund | Ian not said here | backwards property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
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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