The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 13, sentence 1
The young man stopped, not able to believe his ears, but supposed that pain had made the princess cross, as it sometimes does.
Who acts: young man, pain · What happens: stop, believe, suppose, make, do · To what, where: ears, pain · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young man, pain), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 man | det |
| 2 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 man | amod |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stopped | nsubj |
| 4 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 able | punct |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 able | advmod |
| 7 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 stopped | xcomp |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 believe | mark |
| 9 | believe | believe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 able | xcomp |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 ears | nmod:poss |
| 11 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 believe | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 supposed | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 supposed | cc |
| 14 | supposed | suppose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 stopped | conj |
| 15 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 pain | det |
| 16 | pain | pain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 made | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 made | aux |
| 18 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 supposed | ccomp |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 cross | det |
| 20 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 cross | compound |
| 21 | cross | cross | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 made | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 does | punct |
| 23 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 26 does | mark |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 does | nsubj |
| 25 | sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 26 does | advmod |
| 26 | does | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 made | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 stopped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stop | past | the young man | able property | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | believe | to-infinitive | the young man not said here | man's ears | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ear=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | suppose | past | the young man not said here | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | make | past · perfect · passive | that pain | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary cross=Product | |||||
| 5 | do | present | pain | sometimes property | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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