The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 8, sentence 28
The wind was behind them, and very soon they saw the rocks of Dhiurradh in front.
Who acts: wind · What happens: be, see · To what, where: rocks, front
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 (wind), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 wind | det |
| 2 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 saw | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 them | cop |
| 4 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 5 them | case |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 wind | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 saw | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 saw | cc |
| 8 | very | very | ADV | _ | 9 soon | advmod |
| 9 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 11 saw | advmod |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 saw | nsubj |
| 11 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 rocks | det |
| 13 | rocks | rock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 saw | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 Dhiurradh | case |
| 15 | Dhiurradh | Dhiurradh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 rocks | nmod |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 front | case |
| 17 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 rocks | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | behind Heads = head | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | see | past | the wind | the rocks of Dhiurradh | front | soon property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer rock=Stimulus |
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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