The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 7, sentence 31
As the sun was now low over the sea he put the feather in his game bag, and set out homewards.
Who acts: sun, Falcon · What happens: be, put, set out · To what, where: sea, feather, game bag, homewards
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 (sun, Falcon), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 6 low | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 sun | det |
| 3 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 low | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 low | cop |
| 5 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 low | advmod |
| 6 | low | low | ADV | Degree=Pos | 11 put | advmod |
| 7 | over | over | ADP | _ | 9 sea | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 sea | det |
| 9 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 low | obl |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 put | nsubj |
| 11 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 feather | det |
| 13 | feather | feather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 put | obj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 bag | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 bag | nmod:poss |
| 16 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 bag | compound |
| 17 | bag | bag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 put | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 set | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 set | cc |
| 20 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 put | advcl |
| 21 | out | out | ADP | _ | 20 set | compound:prt |
| 22 | homewards | homeward | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 set | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the sun | the sea | now | low property | tree rules | ||
| 2 | put | past | Falcon | the feather | Falcon's game bag | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent feather=Theme in bag=Destination | |||
| 3 | set out | infinitive | Falcon not said here | homewards | 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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