The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 8, sentence 36
Over the moors she flew, and round and round the mountains, and still the Big Women clung to her and snorted with pleasure.
Who acts: eldest, Big Women · What happens: fly, round, cling, snort · To what, where: moors, mountains, eldest
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, Big Women), 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 | Over | over | ADP | _ | 3 moors | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 moors | det |
| 3 | moors | moor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 flew | obl |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 flew | nsubj |
| 5 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 round | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 round | cc |
| 8 | round | round | ADV | _ | 10 round | advmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 round | cc |
| 10 | round | round | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 flew | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 mountains | det |
| 12 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 round | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 clung | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 clung | cc |
| 15 | still | still | ADV | _ | 19 clung | advmod |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Women | det |
| 17 | Big | Big | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Women | flat |
| 18 | Women | Women | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 clung | nsubj |
| 19 | clung | cling | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 flew | conj |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 her | case |
| 21 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 clung | obl |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 snorted | cc |
| 23 | snorted | snort | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 clung | conj |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 pleasure | case |
| 25 | pleasure | pleasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 snorted | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 flew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly | past | eldest = eld | the moors | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent over moor=Location | ||||
| 2 | round | infinitive | eldest = eld not said here | the mountains | round property | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent mountain=Patient | |||
| 3 | cling | past | the Big Women | eldest = eld | still | vn cling-22.5 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to she=Co-Theme | |||
| 4 | snort | past | the Big Women not said here | with pleasure | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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