The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 8, sentence 41
And when the shore was reached, Gille Mairtean the fox took back his own shape, and spoke to Ian Direach in this wise:
Who acts: fox · What happens: reach, take back, speak · To what, where: shore, own shape, Ian, wise · 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 (fox), 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 | _ | 6 reached | cc |
| 2 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 6 reached | mark |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 shore | det |
| 4 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 reached | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 reached | aux:pass |
| 6 | reached | reach | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Gille | punct |
| 8 | Gille | Gille | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 reached | obj |
| 9 | Mairtean | Mairtean | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Gille | flat |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 fox | det |
| 11 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 took | nsubj |
| 12 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 reached | parataxis |
| 13 | back | back | ADV | _ | 12 took | advmod |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 shape | nmod:poss |
| 15 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 shape | amod |
| 16 | shape | shape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 took | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 spoke | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 spoke | cc |
| 19 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 took | parataxis |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 Ian | case |
| 21 | Ian | Ian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 spoke | obl |
| 22 | Direach | Direach | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Ian | flat |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 wise | case |
| 24 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 25 wise | nsubj |
| 25 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 spoke | obl |
| 26 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 reached | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | past · passive | the shore | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary gille=Theme | |||||
| 2 | take back | past | the fox | Gille's own shape | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shape=Theme | ||||
| 3 | speak speech: other | past | Ian | wise | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to ian=Co-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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