The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 7, sentence 94
After he had thus counselled Ian Direach, the fox changed himself into a ship, and set sail for Erin.
Who acts: Erin, fox · What happens: counsell, change · To what, where: Ian, Erin, ship
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 (Erin, 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 | After | after | SCONJ | _ | 5 counselled | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 counselled | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 counselled | aux |
| 4 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 5 counselled | advmod |
| 5 | counselled | counsell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | Ian | Ian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 counselled | obj |
| 7 | Direach | Direach | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Ian | flat |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 changed | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 fox | det |
| 10 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 changed | nsubj |
| 11 | changed | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 Ian | acl:relcl |
| 12 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 11 changed | obj |
| 13 | into | into | ADP | _ | 15 ship | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 ship | det |
| 15 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 changed | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 sail | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 sail | cc |
| 18 | set | set | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 sail | amod |
| 19 | sail | sail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 counselled | obl |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 Erin | case |
| 21 | Erin | Erin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 sail | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 counselled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | counsell | past · perfect | Erin | Ian | set sail for Erin obl; thus property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | change | past | the fox | Erin | into a ship result | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: agent=Agent himself=Patient into ship=Result |
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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