The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 8, sentence 25
Quickly the fox took his own shape again, and galloped away to the sea shore, where Ian Direach and the princess and the bay colt awaited him.
Who acts: fox, Ian · What happens: take, gallop away, await · To what, where: own shape, sea shore, 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 (fox, Ian), 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 | Quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 4 took | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 fox | det |
| 3 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 took | nsubj |
| 4 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 shape | nmod:poss |
| 6 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 shape | amod |
| 7 | shape | shape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 took | obj |
| 8 | again | again | ADV | _ | 4 took | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 galloped | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 galloped | cc |
| 11 | galloped | gallop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 took | conj |
| 12 | away | away | ADV | _ | 11 galloped | advmod |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 shore | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 shore | det |
| 15 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 shore | compound |
| 16 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 galloped | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 awaited | punct |
| 18 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 28 awaited | advmod |
| 19 | Ian | Ian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 awaited | nsubj |
| 20 | Direach | Direach | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Ian | flat |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 princess | cc |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 princess | det |
| 23 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 Ian | conj |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 colt | cc |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 colt | det |
| 26 | bay | bay | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 colt | amod |
| 27 | colt | colt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 Ian | conj |
| 28 | awaited | await | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 shore | conj |
| 29 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 awaited | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | the fox | king's own shape | again | quickly property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shape=Theme | ||
| 2 | gallop away | past | the fox not said here | the sea shore | away property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to shore=Destination | |||
| 3 | await | past | Ian and the princess and the bay colt | king | tree rules |
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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