The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 7, sentence 44
Between them they kindled a fire, and ate their supper.
Who acts: cheek · What happens: kindle, eat · To what, where: fire, supper
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 (cheek), 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 | Between | between | ADP | _ | 2 them | case |
| 2 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 kindled | obl |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 kindled | nsubj |
| 4 | kindled | kindle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 fire | det |
| 6 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 kindled | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 ate | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 ate | cc |
| 9 | ate | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 kindled | conj |
| 10 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 supper | nmod:poss |
| 11 | supper | supper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 ate | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 kindled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kindle | past | cheek | a fire | between cheek | vn engender-27.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition fire=Patient | |||
| 2 | eat | past | cheek not said here | cheek's supper | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent supper=Patient |
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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