The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 8, sentence 39
And the colt laughed, and became a fox again and galloped away to the sea shore, where Ian Direach, and the princess and the real colt and the White Sword of Light were awaiting him.
Who acts: colt, princess · What happens: laugh, become, gallop away, await · To what, where: fox, sea shore, 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 (colt, 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 | _ | 4 laughed | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 colt | det |
| 3 | colt | colt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 laughed | nsubj |
| 4 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 became | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 became | cc |
| 7 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 laughed | conj |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 fox | det |
| 9 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 became | xcomp |
| 10 | again | again | ADV | _ | 7 became | advmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 galloped | cc |
| 12 | galloped | gallop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 laughed | conj |
| 13 | away | away | ADV | _ | 12 galloped | advmod |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 shore | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 shore | det |
| 16 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 shore | compound |
| 17 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 galloped | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 Direach | punct |
| 19 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 21 Direach | advmod |
| 20 | Ian | Ian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Direach | compound |
| 21 | Direach | Direach | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 shore | appos |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 awaiting | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 awaiting | cc |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 princess | det |
| 25 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 awaiting | nsubj |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 colt | cc |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 colt | det |
| 28 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 colt | amod |
| 29 | colt | colt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 princess | conj |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 Sword | cc |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 Sword | det |
| 32 | White | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 Sword | amod |
| 33 | Sword | Sword | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 princess | conj |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 Light | case |
| 35 | Light | Light | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 Sword | nmod |
| 36 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 awaiting | aux |
| 37 | awaiting | await | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 laughed | advcl |
| 38 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 awaiting | obj |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 laughed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | laugh | past | the colt | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | become | past | the colt not said here | a fox | again | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | |||
| 3 | gallop away | past | the colt not said here | the sea shore | away property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to shore=Destination | |||
| 4 | await | past · progressive | the princess and the real colt and the White Sword of Light | 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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