The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 7, sentence 45
Then Gille Mairtean the fox bade Ian Direach lie down as before, and sleep till morning.
Who acts: Gille · What happens: lie down · To what, where: sleep
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 (Gille), 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 | 9 lie | advmod |
| 2 | Gille | Gille | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 lie | nsubj |
| 3 | Mairtean | Mairtean | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Gille | flat |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 bade | det |
| 5 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bade | compound |
| 6 | bade | bade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Gille | appos |
| 7 | Ian | Ian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 bade | appos |
| 8 | Direach | Direach | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Ian | flat |
| 9 | lie | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | down | down | ADV | _ | 9 lie | advmod |
| 11 | as | as | ADV | _ | 12 before | advmod |
| 12 | before | before | ADV | _ | 9 lie | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 sleep | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 sleep | cc |
| 15 | sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 lie | obl |
| 16 | till | till | ADP | _ | 17 morning | case |
| 17 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 sleep | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 lie | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie down | present | Gille | sleep till morning | then | before, down property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=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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