The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 7, sentence 59
And the heart of Ian was glad, and he tended the blue falcon till his fathers shone like the sky, and the giant was well pleased; and one day he said to him:
Who acts: heart, Ian, fathers, giant · What happens: be, tend, shine, say · To what, where: blue falcon, Ian · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (heart, Ian, fathers, 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 | _ | 7 glad | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 heart | det |
| 3 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 glad | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Ian | case |
| 5 | Ian | Ian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 heart | nmod |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 glad | cop |
| 7 | glad | glad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 tended | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 tended | cc |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 tended | nsubj |
| 11 | tended | tend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 glad | parataxis |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 falcon | det |
| 13 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 falcon | amod |
| 14 | falcon | falcon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 tended | obj |
| 15 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 18 shone | mark |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 fathers | nmod:poss |
| 17 | fathers | father | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 shone | nsubj |
| 18 | shone | shine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 tended | advcl |
| 19 | like | like | ADP | _ | 21 sky | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 sky | det |
| 21 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 shone | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 pleased | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 pleased | cc |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 giant | det |
| 25 | giant | giant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 pleased | nsubj |
| 26 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 pleased | cop |
| 27 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 28 pleased | advmod |
| 28 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 tended | conj |
| 29 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 34 said | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 said | cc |
| 31 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 32 day | nummod |
| 32 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 said | obl:unmarked |
| 33 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 said | nsubj |
| 34 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 glad | conj |
| 35 | to | to | ADP | _ | 36 him | case |
| 36 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 said | obl |
| 37 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 glad | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the heart of Ian | glad property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | tend | past | Ian | the blue falcon | vn caring-75.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent falcon=Theme | ||||
| 3 | shine | past | Ian's fathers | like the sky | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location | ||||
| 4 | is | past | the giant | pleased, well property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | say speech: assert | past | giant | Ian | day | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient |
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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