The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 8, sentence 15
Then they took a boat and rowed up to some rocks, and as they touched the land Gille Mairtean changed himself into a fair woman, who laughed, and said to Ian Direach, 'I will give the king a fine wife.'
Who acts: rocks, Gille, fair woman, I · What happens: take, row up, touch, change, laugh, say · To what, where: boat, rocks, land, Gille, Ian, fine wife · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rocks, Gille, fair woman, I), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 took | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 boat | det |
| 5 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 rowed | cc |
| 7 | rowed | row | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 8 | up | up | ADP | _ | 7 rowed | compound:prt |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 rocks | case |
| 10 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 11 rocks | det |
| 11 | rocks | rock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 rowed | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 changed | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 changed | cc |
| 14 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 16 touched | mark |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 touched | nsubj |
| 16 | touched | touch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 changed | advcl |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 land | det |
| 18 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 touched | obj |
| 19 | Gille | Gille | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 changed | nsubj |
| 20 | Mairtean | Mairtean | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Gille | flat |
| 21 | changed | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 22 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 21 changed | obj |
| 23 | into | into | ADP | _ | 26 woman | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 woman | det |
| 25 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 woman | amod |
| 26 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 changed | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 laughed | punct |
| 28 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 29 laughed | nsubj |
| 29 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 woman | acl:relcl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 said | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 said | cc |
| 32 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | parataxis |
| 33 | to | to | ADP | _ | 34 Ian | case |
| 34 | Ian | Ian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 said | obl |
| 35 | Direach | Direach | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 Ian | flat |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 give | punct |
| 37 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 40 give | punct |
| 38 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 40 give | nsubj |
| 39 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 40 give | aux |
| 40 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 said | conj |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 king | det |
| 42 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 give | obj |
| 43 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 45 wife | det |
| 44 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 wife | amod |
| 45 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 give | obj |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
| 47 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | rocks = rock | a boat | then | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boat=Theme | |||
| 2 | row up | past | rocks = rock not said here | some rocks | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to rock=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | touch | past | rocks = rock | the land | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme land=Co-Theme | ||||
| 4 | change | past | Gille | Gille | into a fair woman result | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: agent=Agent himself=Patient into woman=Result | |||
| 5 | laugh | past | a fair woman | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | say speech: assert | past | Ian | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to ian=Recipient | |||||
| 7 | give | future | I | a fine wife | the king | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent king=Recipient wife=Theme |
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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