The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 7, sentence 106
With slow steps went Ian Direach down to the shore where Gille Mairtean the fox awaited him.
Who acts: slow steps, Gille fox · What happens: go down, await · To what, where: Ian
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 (slow steps, Gille fox), 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 | With | with | SCONJ | _ | 4 went | mark |
| 2 | slow | slow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 steps | amod |
| 3 | steps | step | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | Ian | Ian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 went | obj |
| 6 | Direach | Direach | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Ian | flat |
| 7 | down | down | ADV | _ | 4 went | advmod |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 shore | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 shore | det |
| 10 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | obl |
| 11 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 16 awaited | advmod |
| 12 | Gille | Gille | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 fox | compound |
| 13 | Mairtean | Mairtean | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Gille | flat |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 fox | det |
| 15 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 awaited | nsubj |
| 16 | awaited | await | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 shore | acl:relcl |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 awaited | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go down | past | slow steps | Ian | to the shore result; down property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient ian=Extent to shore=Result | |||
| 2 | await | past | the Gille fox | Ian | tree rules |
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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