The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 7, sentence 70
There, as he hoped, he met his friend Gille Mairtean the fox, who bade him eat his supper and lie down to sleep.
Who acts: Ian, fox · What happens: hope, meet, bade, eat, lie down, sleep · To what, where: friend, Ian, 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 (Ian, fox), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 5 hoped | expl |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 hoped | punct |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 5 hoped | mark |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 hoped | nsubj |
| 5 | hoped | hope | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 met | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 met | nsubj |
| 8 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 hoped | conj |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 friend | nmod:poss |
| 10 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 met | obj |
| 11 | Gille | Gille | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 friend | appos |
| 12 | Mairtean | Mairtean | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Gille | flat |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 fox | det |
| 14 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 met | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 bade | punct |
| 16 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 bade | nsubj |
| 17 | bade | bade | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 fox | acl:relcl |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 bade | obj |
| 19 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 bade | xcomp |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 supper | nmod:poss |
| 21 | supper | supper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 eat | obj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 lie | cc |
| 23 | lie | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 eat | conj |
| 24 | down | down | ADV | _ | 23 lie | advmod |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 sleep | mark |
| 26 | sleep | sleep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 lie | advcl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 hoped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hope | past | Ian | there | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot | ||||
| 2 | meet | past | Ian | Ian's friend | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | bade | past | the fox | Ian | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | eat | infinitive | the fox not said here | Ian's supper | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent supper=Patient | ||||
| 5 | lie down | infinitive | the fox not said here | down property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | sleep | to-infinitive | the fox not said here | vn snooze-40.4-1 «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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