The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 9, sentence 92
He had on thick wooden shoes, and he went and stamped so hard on the ice that it broke, and then he picked up the duckling and tucked him under his sheepskin coat, where his frozen bones began to thaw a little.
Who acts: fortune, ice, frozen bones · What happens: have, go, stamp, break, pick up, tuck · To what, where: thick wooden shoes, ice, duckling, fortune, sheepskin coat, little
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 (fortune, ice, frozen bones), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 had | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 shoes | case |
| 4 | thick | thick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 shoes | amod |
| 5 | wooden | wooden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 shoes | amod |
| 6 | shoes | shoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 had | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 went | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 went | cc |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 went | nsubj |
| 10 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 had | parataxis |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 stamped | cc |
| 12 | stamped | stamp | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 went | conj |
| 13 | so | so | ADV | _ | 14 hard | advmod |
| 14 | hard | hard | ADV | Degree=Pos | 12 stamped | advmod |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 ice | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 ice | det |
| 17 | ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 stamped | obl |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 broke | mark |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 broke | nsubj |
| 20 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 stamped | advcl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 picked | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 picked | cc |
| 23 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 25 picked | advmod |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 picked | nsubj |
| 25 | picked | pick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 had | parataxis |
| 26 | up | up | ADP | _ | 25 picked | compound:prt |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 duckling | det |
| 28 | duckling | duckling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 picked | obj |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 tucked | cc |
| 30 | tucked | tuck | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 picked | conj |
| 31 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 tucked | obj |
| 32 | under | under | ADP | _ | 35 coat | case |
| 33 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 coat | nmod:poss |
| 34 | sheepskin | sheepskin | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 coat | amod |
| 35 | coat | coat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 tucked | obl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 began | punct |
| 37 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 41 began | advmod |
| 38 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 40 bones | nmod:poss |
| 39 | frozen | freeze | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 40 bones | amod |
| 40 | bones | bone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 began | nsubj |
| 41 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 coat | acl:relcl |
| 42 | to | to | PART | _ | 43 thaw | mark |
| 43 | thaw | thaw | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 41 began | xcomp |
| 44 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 45 little | det |
| 45 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 thaw | obl:unmarked |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | fortune | thick wooden shoes | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | go | past | fortune | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | stamp | past | fortune not said here | the ice | hard property | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent on ice=Destination | |||
| 4 | break | past | ice | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 5 | pick up | past | fortune | the duckling | then | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent duckling=Topic | |||
| 6 | tuck | past | fortune not said here | fortune | fortune's sheepskin coat | vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent he=Theme under coat=Trajectory | |||
| 7 | freeze | participle | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 8 | begin | past | fortune's frozen bones | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 9 | thaw | to-infinitive | fortune's frozen bones not said here | a little | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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