The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 8, sentence 34
Then the second sister sat on the back of the first, and the third on the back of the second, and so on for the whole seven.
Who acts: second sister · What happens: sit · To what, where: third, back
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 (second sister), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 sat | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 sister | det |
| 3 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 sister | amod |
| 4 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sat | nsubj |
| 5 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 back | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 back | det |
| 8 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sat | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 first | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 first | det |
| 11 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 8 back | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 third | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 third | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 third | det |
| 15 | third | third | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sat | obl |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 back | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 back | det |
| 18 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 third | nmod |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 second | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 second | det |
| 21 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 18 back | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 on | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 on | cc |
| 24 | so | so | ADV | _ | 25 on | advmod |
| 25 | on | on | ADV | _ | 5 sat | conj |
| 26 | for | for | ADP | _ | 29 seven | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 seven | det |
| 28 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 seven | amod |
| 29 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 25 on | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | past | the second sister | the third on the back of the second | the back of the first | then | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on back=Location |
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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