The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 8, sentence 24
In an instant Gille Mairtean the fox had sprung on his back, and gave him such a bite that he fell down unconscious.
Who acts: king · What happens: spring, give, fall down · To what, where: fox, instant, bite, king
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), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 instant | case |
| 2 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 instant | det |
| 3 | instant | instant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sprung | obl |
| 4 | Gille | Gille | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 instant | appos |
| 5 | Mairtean | Mairtean | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Gille | flat |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 fox | det |
| 7 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sprung | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 sprung | aux |
| 9 | sprung | spring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 back | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 back | nmod:poss |
| 12 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sprung | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 gave | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 gave | cc |
| 15 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 sprung | conj |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 gave | iobj |
| 17 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 19 bite | det:predet |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 bite | det |
| 19 | bite | bite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 gave | obj |
| 20 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 fell | mark |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 fell | nsubj |
| 22 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 gave | advcl |
| 23 | down | down | ADV | _ | 22 fell | advmod |
| 24 | unconscious | unconscious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 fell | xcomp |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 sprung | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spring | past · perfect · passive | the fox | a instant | on king's back | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | |||
| 2 | give | past | such bite | king | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient bite=Theme | ||||
| 3 | fall down | past | king | down, unconscious property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=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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