The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 7, sentence 49
And when this happens, wait till the giant is out of his house; then throw a cloth over the falcon and bear her away with you.
Who acts: this, you, giant · What happens: happen, wait, be, throw, bear away · To what, where: house, cloth, queen
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 (this, you, giant), 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 | _ | 6 wait | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 happens | advmod |
| 3 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 happens | nsubj |
| 4 | happens | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 wait | advcl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 happens | punct |
| 6 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 14 house | mark |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 giant | det |
| 9 | giant | giant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 house | nsubj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 house | cop |
| 11 | out | out | ADP | _ | 14 house | case |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 house | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 house | nmod:poss |
| 14 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 wait | advcl |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 throw | punct |
| 16 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 throw | advmod |
| 17 | throw | throw | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 wait | conj |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 cloth | det |
| 19 | cloth | cloth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 throw | obj |
| 20 | over | over | ADP | _ | 22 falcon | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 falcon | det |
| 22 | falcon | falcon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 throw | obl |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 bear | cc |
| 24 | bear | bear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 throw | conj |
| 25 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 bear | obj |
| 26 | away | away | ADV | _ | 24 bear | advmod |
| 27 | with | with | ADP | _ | 28 you | case |
| 28 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 bear | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 wait | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | present | this | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | wait | imperative | you not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is | present | the giant | giant's house | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | throw | infinitive | you not said here | a cloth | then | over the falcon | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent cloth=Theme over falcon=Destination | ||
| 5 | bear away | infinitive | you not said here | queen | with you; away property | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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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