The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 8, sentence 27
And so he did, and Ian Direach let the bay colt into the ship and the princess went after them, and they set sail for Dhiurradh.
Who acts: Gille, Ian, princess, Heads · What happens: do, let, bay, go, set · To what, where: colt, ship, sail
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 (Gille, Ian, princess, Heads), 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 | _ | 4 did | cc |
| 2 | so | so | ADV | _ | 4 did | advmod |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 did | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 let | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 let | cc |
| 7 | Ian | Ian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 let | nsubj |
| 8 | Direach | Direach | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Ian | flat |
| 9 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 did | parataxis |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 bay | det |
| 11 | bay | bay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 let | xcomp |
| 12 | colt | colt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 bay | obj |
| 13 | into | into | ADP | _ | 15 ship | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 ship | det |
| 15 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 bay | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 went | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 princess | det |
| 18 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 went | nsubj |
| 19 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 let | conj |
| 20 | after | after | ADP | _ | 21 them | case |
| 21 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 went | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 set | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 set | cc |
| 24 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 set | nsubj |
| 25 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 did | conj |
| 26 | sail | sail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 set | obj |
| 27 | for | for | ADP | _ | 28 Dhiurradh | case |
| 28 | Dhiurradh | Dhiurradh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 sail | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | Gille | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | let | past | Ian | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | bay | infinitive | Ian not said here | colt | the ship | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent colt=Theme | |||
| 4 | go | past | the princess | after Heads = head | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | set | past | Heads = head | sail | for Dhiurradh | vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent sail=Patient for dhiurradh=Beneficiary |
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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