The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 12, sentence 102
No sooner had the prince entered the palace than he hastened to the princess's apartments, where he found her lying on the sofa apparently in great pain.
Who acts: prince, princess · What happens: have, enter, hasten, find, lie · To what, where: palace, apartments, princess, sofa
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, princess), 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 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 sooner | det |
| 2 | sooner | soon | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 3 had | advmod |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 prince | det |
| 5 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 entered | nsubj |
| 6 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 had | ccomp |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 palace | det |
| 8 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 entered | obj |
| 9 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 11 hastened | mark |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 hastened | nsubj |
| 11 | hastened | hasten | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 entered | advcl |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 apartments | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 princess | det |
| 14 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 apartments | nmod:poss |
| 15 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 14 princess | case |
| 16 | apartments | apartment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 hastened | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 found | punct |
| 18 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 20 found | advmod |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 found | nsubj |
| 20 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 hastened | conj |
| 21 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 found | obj |
| 22 | lying | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 found | xcomp |
| 23 | on | on | ADP | _ | 25 sofa | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 sofa | det |
| 25 | sofa | sofa | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 lying | obl |
| 26 | apparently | apparently | ADV | _ | 22 lying | advmod |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 pain | case |
| 28 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 pain | amod |
| 29 | pain | pain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 lying | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | soon property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | enter | past | the prince | the palace | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme palace=Destination | ||||
| 3 | hasten | past | prince | the princess's apartments | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to apartment=Destination | ||||
| 4 | find | past | prince | princess | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent she=Attribute clause=Theme | ||||
| 5 | lie | gerund | princess not said here | the sofa | in great pain; apparently property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on sofa=Location |
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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