The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 7, sentence 86
Humbled and ashamed, Ian Direach left the house, and sat by the side of the sea, and soon Gille Mairtean the fox came to him.
Who acts: Ian, Gille Mairtean · What happens: humble, leave, sit, come · To what, where: house, Ian
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, Gille Mairtean), 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 | Humbled | humble | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 left | advcl |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 ashamed | cc |
| 3 | ashamed | ashamed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Humbled | conj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Humbled | punct |
| 5 | Ian | Ian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 left | nsubj |
| 6 | Direach | Direach | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Ian | flat |
| 7 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 house | det |
| 9 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 left | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 sat | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 sat | cc |
| 12 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 left | parataxis |
| 13 | by | by | ADP | _ | 15 side | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 side | det |
| 15 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 sat | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 sea | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 sea | det |
| 18 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 side | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 came | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 came | cc |
| 21 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 23 Mairtean | advmod |
| 22 | Gille | Gille | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Mairtean | compound |
| 23 | Mairtean | Mairtean | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 came | nsubj |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 fox | det |
| 25 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 Mairtean | appos |
| 26 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 sat | conj |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 him | case |
| 28 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 came | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 left | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | humble | participle | Ian not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | leave | past | Ian | the house | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Theme | ||||
| 3 | sit | past | by the side of the sea | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by side=Location | |||||
| 4 | come | past | Gille Mairtean | Ian | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to he=Initial_Location |
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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