The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 7, sentence 63
But the rays of the sun pierced through the thickness of the cloth, and as they passed the doorpost she gave a spring, and the tip of one of her feathers touched the post, which gave a scream, and brought the giant back in three strides.
Who acts: rays, Scarcely, tip, post · What happens: pierce, pass, give, touch, bring, ray · To what, where: doorpost, post, scream, giant back, three strides, sun
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 (rays, Scarcely, tip, post), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 pierced | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 rays | det |
| 3 | rays | ray | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 pierced | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 sun | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 sun | det |
| 6 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 rays | nmod |
| 7 | pierced | pierce | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 8 | through | through | ADP | _ | 10 thickness | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 thickness | det |
| 10 | thickness | thickness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 pierced | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 cloth | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 cloth | det |
| 13 | cloth | cloth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 thickness | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 gave | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 gave | cc |
| 16 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 18 passed | mark |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 passed | nsubj |
| 18 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 gave | advcl |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 doorpost | det |
| 20 | doorpost | doorpost | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 passed | obj |
| 21 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 gave | nsubj |
| 22 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 pierced | parataxis |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 spring | det |
| 24 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 gave | obj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 touched | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 touched | cc |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 tip | det |
| 28 | tip | tip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 touched | nsubj |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 one | case |
| 30 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 28 tip | nmod |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 feathers | case |
| 32 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 feathers | nmod:poss |
| 33 | feathers | feather | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 one | nmod |
| 34 | touched | touch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 gave | parataxis |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 post | det |
| 36 | post | post | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 touched | obj |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 gave | punct |
| 38 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 39 gave | nsubj |
| 39 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 post | acl:relcl |
| 40 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 41 scream | det |
| 41 | scream | scream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 gave | obj |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 brought | punct |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 brought | cc |
| 44 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 gave | conj |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 47 back | det |
| 46 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 47 back | amod |
| 47 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 brought | obj |
| 48 | in | in | ADP | _ | 50 strides | case |
| 49 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 50 strides | nummod |
| 50 | strides | stride | NOUN | Number=Plur | 44 brought | obl |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 pierced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pierce | participle | the rays of the sun | through the thickness of the cloth | vn poke-19-1 «NP V NP PP.patient»: agent=Agent through thickness=Patient | ||||
| 2 | pass | past | rays = ray | the doorpost | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme doorpost=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | give | past | Scarcely | spring | vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | touch | past | the tip of one of Scarcely's feathers | the post | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme post=Co-Theme | ||||
| 5 | give | past | the post | a scream | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scream=Theme | ||||
| 6 | bring | past | Scarcely not said here | the giant back | three strides | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent back=Theme | |||
| 7 | ray | the sun | nom ray «phenomenon transitive»: of=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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