The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 8, sentence 33
'Now we shall have the ride that we have longed for!' cried the Seven Big Women; and they saddled and bridled the colt, and the eldest one got upon the saddle.
Who acts: we, Women, eldest one · What happens: have, long, cry, saddle, bridle, get · To what, where: ride, we, Seven Big Women, colt · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (we, Women, eldest one), 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 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 have | punct |
| 2 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 have | advmod |
| 3 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 have | nsubj |
| 4 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 have | aux |
| 5 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 cried | ccomp |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 ride | det |
| 7 | ride | ride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 have | obj |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 longed | obj |
| 9 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 longed | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 longed | aux |
| 11 | longed | long | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 ride | acl:relcl |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 longed | obl |
| 13 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 have | punct |
| 14 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 have | punct |
| 15 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Women | det |
| 17 | Seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 Women | nummod |
| 18 | Big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 Women | amod |
| 19 | Women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 cried | obj |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 saddled | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 saddled | cc |
| 22 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 saddled | nsubj |
| 23 | saddled | saddle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 cried | parataxis |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 bridled | cc |
| 25 | bridled | bridle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 saddled | conj |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 colt | det |
| 27 | colt | colt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 bridled | obj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 got | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 got | cc |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 one | det |
| 31 | eldest | eld | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 32 one | amod |
| 32 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 got | nsubj |
| 33 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 cried | parataxis |
| 34 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 36 saddle | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 saddle | det |
| 36 | saddle | saddle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 got | obl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | shall | we | the ride | now | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ride=Patient | |||
| 2 | long | present · perfect · passive | we | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | cry speech: express | past | the Seven Big Women | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | saddle | past | Women = woman | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | bridle | past | Women = woman not said here | the colt | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent colt=Destination | ||||
| 6 | get | past | the eldest one | upon the saddle | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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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