The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 8, sentence 31
Joy filed the hearts of the Big Women when they beheld the bay colt led up to their door by Ian Direach.
Who acts: Joy, hearts · What happens: file, behold, lead up · To what, where: hearts, bay colt
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 (Joy, hearts), 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 | Joy | Joy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 filed | nsubj |
| 2 | filed | file | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 hearts | det |
| 4 | hearts | heart | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 filed | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Women | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Women | det |
| 7 | Big | Big | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Women | flat |
| 8 | Women | Women | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 hearts | nmod |
| 9 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 beheld | advmod |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 beheld | nsubj |
| 11 | beheld | behold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 filed | advcl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 colt | det |
| 13 | bay | bay | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 colt | amod |
| 14 | colt | colt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 beheld | obj |
| 15 | led | lead | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 colt | acl |
| 16 | up | up | ADP | _ | 15 led | compound:prt |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 door | case |
| 18 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 door | nmod:poss |
| 19 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 led | obl |
| 20 | by | by | ADP | _ | 21 Ian | case |
| 21 | Ian | Ian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 led | obl:agent |
| 22 | Direach | Direach | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Ian | flat |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 filed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | file | past | Joy | the hearts of the Big Women | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Patient | ||||
| 2 | behold | past | hearts = heart | the bay colt | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer colt=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | lead up | participle | the bay colt not said here | to hearts's door | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to door=Patient |
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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