The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 8, sentence 93
When they returned they found the old neighbour on the bank waiting for them to take them into the duckyard. '
Who acts: balls · What happens: return, find, wait, take · To what, where: old neighbour, bank, balls, duckyard
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 (balls), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 returned | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 returned | nsubj |
| 3 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 found | advcl |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 found | nsubj |
| 5 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 neighbour | det |
| 7 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 neighbour | amod |
| 8 | neighbour | neighbour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 found | obj |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 bank | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 bank | det |
| 11 | bank | bank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 found | obl |
| 12 | waiting | wait | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 found | advcl |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 them | case |
| 14 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 waiting | obl |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 take | mark |
| 16 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 waiting | advcl |
| 17 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 take | obj |
| 18 | into | into | ADP | _ | 20 duckyard | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 duckyard | det |
| 20 | duckyard | duckyard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 take | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 found | punct |
| 22 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | past | balls = ball | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | find | past | balls = ball | the old neighbour | the bank | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent neighbour=Topic | |||
| 3 | wait | gerund | balls = ball not said here | for balls = ball | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | take | to-infinitive | balls = ball not said here | balls = ball | the duckyard | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme into duckyard=Destination |
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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