The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 7, sentence 98
And when he had spoken, he led Ian Direach to the stable where stood the bay colt.
Who acts: kingdom · What happens: speak, lead, stand · To what, where: Ian, stable, bay colt · 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 (kingdom), 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 | _ | 8 led | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 spoken | advmod |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 spoken | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 spoken | aux |
| 5 | spoken | speak | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 led | advcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 spoken | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 led | nsubj |
| 8 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | Ian | Ian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 led | obj |
| 10 | Direach | Direach | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Ian | flat |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 stable | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 stable | det |
| 13 | stable | stable | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 led | obl |
| 14 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 15 stood | advmod |
| 15 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 stable | acl:relcl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 colt | det |
| 17 | bay | bay | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 colt | amod |
| 18 | colt | colt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 stood | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 led | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | past · perfect | kingdom | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | lead | past | kingdom | Ian | the stable | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent ian=Theme to stable=Destination | |||
| 3 | stand | past | the bay colt | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer colt=Stimulus |
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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