The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 8, sentence 35
And when they were all seated, the eldest struck her side with a whip and the colt bounded forward.
Who acts: eldest · What happens: seat, strike, bound · To what, where: Women, side, 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 (eldest), 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 | _ | 10 struck | cc |
| 2 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 6 seated | mark |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 seated | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 seated | aux:pass |
| 5 | all | all | ADV | _ | 6 seated | advmod |
| 6 | seated | seat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 struck | advcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 seated | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 eldest | det |
| 9 | eldest | eld | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 10 struck | nsubj |
| 10 | struck | strike | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 side | nmod:poss |
| 12 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 struck | obj |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 whip | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 whip | det |
| 15 | whip | whip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 struck | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 colt | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 colt | det |
| 18 | colt | colt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 whip | conj |
| 19 | bounded | bound | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 colt | acl |
| 20 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 19 bounded | advmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 struck | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seat | past · passive | Women = woman | all property | vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: subject=Value | ||||
| 2 | strike | past | the eldest | sister's side | with a whip and the colt | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent side=Patient with whip=Instrument | |||
| 3 | bound | participle | the colt not said here | forward property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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