The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 8, sentence 32
And the youngest of them fetched the White Sword of Light, and gave it into the hands of Ian Direach, who took off the golden saddle and the silver bridle, and went down the hill with the sword to the place where the princess and the real colt awaited him.
Who acts: youngest, Ian, princess · What happens: fetch, give, take off, go down, await · To what, where: White Sword, Sword, hands, golden saddle, hill, 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 (youngest, Ian, princess), 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 | _ | 6 fetched | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 youngest | det |
| 3 | youngest | young | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 6 fetched | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 them | case |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 youngest | nmod |
| 6 | fetched | fetch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Sword | det |
| 8 | White | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 Sword | amod |
| 9 | Sword | Sword | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 fetched | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 Light | case |
| 11 | Light | Light | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Sword | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 gave | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 gave | cc |
| 14 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 fetched | conj |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 gave | obj |
| 16 | into | into | ADP | _ | 18 hands | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 hands | det |
| 18 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 gave | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 Ian | case |
| 20 | Ian | Ian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 hands | nmod |
| 21 | Direach | Direach | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Ian | flat |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 took | punct |
| 23 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 took | nsubj |
| 24 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 Ian | acl:relcl |
| 25 | off | off | ADP | _ | 24 took | compound:prt |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 saddle | det |
| 27 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 saddle | amod |
| 28 | saddle | saddle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 took | obj |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 bridle | cc |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 bridle | det |
| 31 | silver | silver | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 bridle | amod |
| 32 | bridle | bridle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 saddle | conj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 went | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 went | cc |
| 35 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 fetched | conj |
| 36 | down | down | ADP | _ | 38 hill | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 hill | det |
| 38 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 went | obl |
| 39 | with | with | ADP | _ | 41 sword | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 sword | det |
| 41 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 went | obl |
| 42 | to | to | ADP | _ | 44 place | case |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 place | det |
| 44 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 went | obl |
| 45 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 52 awaited | advmod |
| 46 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 47 princess | det |
| 47 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 52 awaited | nsubj |
| 48 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 51 colt | cc |
| 49 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 51 colt | det |
| 50 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 51 colt | amod |
| 51 | colt | colt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 princess | conj |
| 52 | awaited | await | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 44 place | acl:relcl |
| 53 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 52 awaited | obj |
| 54 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 fetched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fetch | past | the youngest of hearts | the White Sword of Light | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sword=Theme | ||||
| 2 | give | past | the youngest of hearts not said here | Sword | the hands of Ian | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 3 | take off | past | Ian | the golden saddle and the silver bridle | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent saddle=Theme | ||||
| 4 | go down | past | the youngest of hearts not said here | the hill | with the sword; to the place result | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient hill=Extent to place=Result | |||
| 5 | await | past | the princess and the real colt | colt | 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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