The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 9, sentence 56
Upon which the hen turned her back, and the cat came forward.
Who acts: hen, cat · What happens: turn back, come forward · To what, where: woman
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hen, cat), 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 | Upon | upon | ADP | _ | 2 which | case |
| 2 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 turned | obl |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 hen | det |
| 4 | hen | hen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 turned | nsubj |
| 5 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 turned | obj |
| 7 | back | back | ADV | _ | 5 turned | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 came | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 came | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 cat | det |
| 11 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 came | nsubj |
| 12 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 turned | conj |
| 13 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 12 came | advmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn back | past | the hen | woman | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | ||||
| 2 | come forward | past | the cat | forward property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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