The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 8, sentence 16
Now the king of Erin had been hunting on the hill, and when he saw a strange ship sailing towards the harbour, he guessed that it might be Ian Direach, and left his hunting, and ran down to the hill to the stable.
Who acts: king, strange ship, ship · What happens: hunt, see, sail, guess, be, leave · To what, where: hill, strange ship, harbour, Ian, hunting
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 (king, strange ship, ship), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 hunting | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 king | det |
| 3 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 hunting | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Erin | case |
| 5 | Erin | Erin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 king | nmod |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 hunting | aux |
| 7 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 hunting | aux |
| 8 | hunting | hunt | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 saw | advcl |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 hill | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 hill | det |
| 11 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 hunting | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 saw | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 saw | cc |
| 14 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 saw | advmod |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 saw | nsubj |
| 16 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 ship | det |
| 18 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 ship | amod |
| 19 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 saw | obj |
| 20 | sailing | sail | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 ship | acl |
| 21 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 23 harbour | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 harbour | det |
| 23 | harbour | harbour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 sailing | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 guessed | punct |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 guessed | nsubj |
| 26 | guessed | guess | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 saw | parataxis |
| 27 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 31 Ian | mark |
| 28 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 Ian | nsubj |
| 29 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 Ian | aux |
| 30 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 31 Ian | cop |
| 31 | Ian | Ian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 guessed | obj |
| 32 | Direach | Direach | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 Ian | flat |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 left | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 left | cc |
| 35 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 guessed | conj |
| 36 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 hunting | nmod:poss |
| 37 | hunting | hunting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 left | obj |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 ran | punct |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 ran | cc |
| 40 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 saw | conj |
| 41 | down | down | ADV | _ | 40 ran | advmod |
| 42 | to | to | ADP | _ | 44 hill | case |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 hill | det |
| 44 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 ran | obl |
| 45 | to | to | ADP | _ | 47 stable | case |
| 46 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 47 stable | det |
| 47 | stable | stable | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 ran | obl |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hunt | past · perfect · progressive | the king of Erin | the hill | now | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent on hill=Location | |||
| 2 | see | past | king | a strange ship | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ship=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | sail | gerund | a strange ship not said here | the harbour | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent towards harbour=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | guess | past | king | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | is a | might | ship | Ian | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | leave | past | king not said here | king's hunting | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hunting=Theme | ||||
| 7 | run down | past | king not said here | to the hill result; to the stable; down property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to hill=Result | ||||
| 8 | hunt | king | nom hunting «act transitive»: poss=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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