The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 7, sentence 41
And in his dream a soft nose touched him, and a warm body curled up beside him, and a low voice whispered to him:
Who acts: soft nose, low voice, bird · What happens: touch, curl up, whisper, dream · To what, where: bird, dream, warm body
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 (soft nose, low voice, bird), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 touched | cc |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 dream | case |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 dream | nmod:poss |
| 4 | dream | dream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 touched | obl |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 nose | det |
| 6 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 nose | amod |
| 7 | nose | nose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 touched | nsubj |
| 8 | touched | touch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 touched | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 body | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 body | cc |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 body | det |
| 13 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 body | amod |
| 14 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 touched | conj |
| 15 | curled | curl | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 body | acl |
| 16 | up | up | ADP | _ | 15 curled | compound:prt |
| 17 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 18 him | case |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 curled | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 whispered | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 whispered | cc |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 voice | det |
| 22 | low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 voice | amod |
| 23 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 whispered | nsubj |
| 24 | whispered | whisper | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 touched | conj |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 him | case |
| 26 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 whispered | obl |
| 27 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 touched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | touch | past | a soft nose | bird | bird's dream | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme he=Co-Theme | |||
| 2 | curl up | participle | a warm body not said here | beside bird | vn coil-9.6-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | whisper speech: assert | past | a low voice | bird | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | dream | bird | nom dream «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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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