The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 12, sentence 94
In a few days she heard that a great hunt was planned, and the prince would leave the palace very early in the morning, so that his wife would be alone all day.
Who acts: woman, prince, wife · What happens: hear, plan, leave, be · To what, where: great hunt, palace, day · 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 (woman, prince, wife), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 days | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 days | det |
| 3 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 days | amod |
| 4 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 heard | obl |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 heard | nsubj |
| 6 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 planned | mark |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 hunt | det |
| 9 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 hunt | amod |
| 10 | hunt | hunt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 planned | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 planned | aux:pass |
| 12 | planned | plan | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 heard | ccomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 leave | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 leave | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 prince | det |
| 16 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 leave | nsubj |
| 17 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 leave | aux |
| 18 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 heard | conj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 palace | det |
| 20 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 leave | obj |
| 21 | very | very | ADV | _ | 22 early | advmod |
| 22 | early | early | ADV | Degree=Pos | 18 leave | advmod |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 morning | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 morning | det |
| 25 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 leave | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 day | punct |
| 27 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 35 day | mark |
| 28 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 27 so | fixed |
| 29 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 wife | nmod:poss |
| 30 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 day | nsubj |
| 31 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 35 day | aux |
| 32 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 35 day | cop |
| 33 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 35 day | advmod |
| 34 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 35 day | det |
| 35 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 leave | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | woman | day | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | plan | past · passive | a great hunt | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | |||||
| 3 | leave | would | the prince | the palace | morning | early property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent palace=Theme | ||
| 4 | is a | would | prince's wife | all day | alone property | tree rules |
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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