The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 12, sentence 91
By the aid of her magic mirror the witch beheld the new princess walking in her gardens in a dress of green silk, and in a few minutes had produced a mask so like her, that very few people could have told the difference.
Who acts: witch, new princess · What happens: behold, walk, produce, tell · To what, where: new princess, gardens, mask, that, difference · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (witch, new 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 | By | by | ADP | _ | 3 aid | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 aid | det |
| 3 | aid | aid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 beheld | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 mirror | case |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 mirror | nmod:poss |
| 6 | magic | magic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 mirror | amod |
| 7 | mirror | mirror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 aid | nmod |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 witch | det |
| 9 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 beheld | nsubj |
| 10 | beheld | behold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 princess | det |
| 12 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 princess | amod |
| 13 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 beheld | obj |
| 14 | walking | walk | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 princess | acl |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 gardens | case |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 gardens | nmod:poss |
| 17 | gardens | garden | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 walking | obl |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 dress | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 dress | det |
| 20 | dress | dress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 walking | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 silk | case |
| 22 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 silk | amod |
| 23 | silk | silk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 dress | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 produced | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 produced | cc |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 minutes | case |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 minutes | det |
| 28 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 minutes | amod |
| 29 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 produced | obl |
| 30 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 produced | aux |
| 31 | produced | produce | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 beheld | conj |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 mask | det |
| 33 | mask | mask | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 produced | obj |
| 34 | so | so | ADV | _ | 31 produced | advmod |
| 35 | like | like | ADP | _ | 36 her | case |
| 36 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 produced | obl |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 told | punct |
| 38 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 44 told | nsubj:pass |
| 39 | very | very | ADV | _ | 40 few | advmod |
| 40 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 people | amod |
| 41 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 44 told | nsubj:pass |
| 42 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 44 told | aux |
| 43 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 44 told | aux |
| 44 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 beheld | parataxis |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 difference | det |
| 46 | difference | difference | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 told | iobj |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 beheld | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | behold | past | the witch | the new princess | by the aid of witch's magic mirror | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer princess=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | walk | gerund | the new princess not said here | witch's gardens | in a dress of green silk | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in garden=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | produce | past · perfect | the witch not said here | a mask | minute | like witch | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mask=Result | ||
| 4 | tell speech: assert | could · perfect · passive | that | the difference | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient difference=Topic |
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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