The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 8, sentence 54
Henceforth he was safe from harm, for had he not the bay colt who could leave one wind behind her and catch the other wind, and the blue falcon to bring him game to eat, and the White Sword of Light to pierce through his foes?
Who acts: Ian, bay colt, White Sword · What happens: be, have, not colt, leave, catch, bring · To what, where: harm, blue falcon, one wind, other wind, game, Ian
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 (Ian, bay colt, White Sword), 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 | Henceforth | henceforth | ADV | _ | 4 safe | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 safe | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 safe | cop |
| 4 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 harm | case |
| 6 | harm | harm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 safe | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 had | punct |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 had | case |
| 9 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 safe | parataxis |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 colt | nsubj |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 colt | advmod |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 colt | det |
| 13 | bay | bay | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 colt | amod |
| 14 | colt | colt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 had | obj |
| 15 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 leave | nsubj |
| 16 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 leave | aux |
| 17 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 colt | parataxis |
| 18 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 wind | nummod |
| 19 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 leave | obj |
| 20 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 21 her | case |
| 21 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 leave | obl |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 catch | cc |
| 23 | catch | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 leave | conj |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 wind | det |
| 25 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 wind | amod |
| 26 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 catch | obj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 falcon | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 falcon | cc |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 falcon | det |
| 30 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 falcon | amod |
| 31 | falcon | falcon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 had | obl |
| 32 | to | to | PART | _ | 33 bring | mark |
| 33 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 falcon | acl |
| 34 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 bring | obj |
| 35 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 bring | obj |
| 36 | to | to | PART | _ | 37 eat | mark |
| 37 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 bring | advcl |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 pierce | punct |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 pierce | cc |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 Sword | det |
| 41 | White | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 Sword | amod |
| 42 | Sword | Sword | PROPN | Number=Sing | 46 pierce | nsubj |
| 43 | of | of | ADP | _ | 44 Light | case |
| 44 | Light | Light | PROPN | Number=Sing | 42 Sword | nmod |
| 45 | to | to | PART | _ | 46 pierce | mark |
| 46 | pierce | pierce | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 safe | conj |
| 47 | through | through | ADP | _ | 49 foes | case |
| 48 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 49 foes | nmod:poss |
| 49 | foes | foe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 46 pierce | obl |
| 50 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 safe | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Ian | harm | henceforth, safe property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | have | past | the blue falcon | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | not colt | Ian | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | leave | could | the bay colt | one wind | behind wind | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent wind=Theme behind she=Location | |||
| 5 | catch | present | the bay colt not said here | the other wind | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wind=Theme | ||||
| 6 | bring | to-infinitive | game | Ian | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination game=Theme | ||||
| 7 | eat | to-infinitive | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 8 | pierce | to-infinitive | the White Sword of Light | through Ian's foes | vn poke-19-1 «NP V NP PP.patient»: agent=Agent through foe=Patient |
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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