The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 7, sentence 102
Then he went away; and when he was no longer in sight, Ian Direach led the bay colt out of the stable, and sprang on her back.
Who acts: Ian · What happens: go away, not be, lead, spring · To what, where: sight, bay colt, stable, back
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ian), 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 went | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | away | away | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 longer | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 longer | cc |
| 7 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 longer | advmod |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 longer | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 longer | cop |
| 10 | no | no | ADV | _ | 11 longer | advmod |
| 11 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 3 went | advmod |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 sight | case |
| 13 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 longer | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 led | punct |
| 15 | Ian | Ian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 led | nsubj |
| 16 | Direach | Direach | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Ian | flat |
| 17 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 colt | det |
| 19 | bay | bay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 colt | compound |
| 20 | colt | colt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 led | obj |
| 21 | out | out | ADP | _ | 24 stable | case |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 stable | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 stable | det |
| 24 | stable | stable | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 led | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 sprang | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 sprang | cc |
| 27 | sprang | spring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 28 | on | on | ADP | _ | 30 back | case |
| 29 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 back | nmod:poss |
| 30 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 sprang | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go away | past | Ian | then | away property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | not is | past | Ian | sight | long property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | lead | past | Ian | the bay colt | the stable | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent colt=Theme out stable=Destination | |||
| 4 | spring | past | Ian not said here | friend's back | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on back=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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