The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 13, sentence 11
At length he made up his mind to summon all the court physicians; he did not tell her what he was going to do, lest it should make her worse, but he went himself and begged the four learned leeches attached to the king's person to follow him to the princess's apartments.
Who acts: length, mind, four · What happens: make up, summon, not tell, go, do, make · To what, where: mind, length, court physicians, bride, leeches, apartments · 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 (length, mind, four), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 length | case |
| 2 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 made | obl |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 made | nsubj |
| 4 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 made | compound:prt |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 mind | nmod:poss |
| 7 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 made | obj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 summon | mark |
| 9 | summon | summon | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 made | advcl |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 physicians | det:predet |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 physicians | det |
| 12 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 physicians | compound |
| 13 | physicians | physician | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 summon | obj |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 tell | punct |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 tell | nsubj |
| 16 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 tell | aux |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 tell | advmod |
| 18 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 made | conj |
| 19 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 tell | iobj |
| 20 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 23 going | nsubj |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 going | nsubj |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 going | aux |
| 23 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 tell | ccomp |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 do | mark |
| 25 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 going | xcomp |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 make | punct |
| 27 | lest | lest | SCONJ | _ | 30 make | mark |
| 28 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 make | nsubj |
| 29 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 make | aux |
| 30 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 tell | advcl |
| 31 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 make | obj |
| 32 | worse | bad | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 30 make | xcomp |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 went | punct |
| 34 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 36 went | cc |
| 35 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 went | nsubj |
| 36 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 made | parataxis |
| 37 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 36 went | obl |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 begged | cc |
| 39 | begged | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 went | conj |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 four | det |
| 41 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 42 learned | nsubj |
| 42 | learned | learn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 begged | ccomp |
| 43 | leeches | leech | NOUN | Number=Plur | 42 learned | obj |
| 44 | attached | attach | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 43 leeches | acl |
| 45 | to | to | ADP | _ | 49 person | case |
| 46 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 47 king | det |
| 47 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 person | nmod:poss |
| 48 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 47 king | case |
| 49 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 attached | obl |
| 50 | to | to | PART | _ | 51 follow | mark |
| 51 | follow | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 44 attached | advcl |
| 52 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 51 follow | obj |
| 53 | to | to | ADP | _ | 57 apartments | case |
| 54 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 55 princess | det |
| 55 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 57 apartments | nmod:poss |
| 56 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 55 princess | case |
| 57 | apartments | apartment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 51 follow | obl |
| 58 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make up | past | length | length's mind | length | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mind=Pivot | |||
| 2 | summon | to-infinitive | length not said here | all court physicians | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent physician=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | not tell speech: assert | past · do-support | length | bride | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | go | past · progressive | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 5 | do | to-infinitive | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 6 | make | should | mind | bride | bad property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material she=Product | |||
| 7 | go | past | length | length | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 8 | beg speech: request | past | length not said here | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 9 | learn | past | the four | leeches | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leech=Topic | ||||
| 10 | attach | participle | leeches not said here | to the king's person | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 11 | follow | to-infinitive | length | the princess's apartments | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Theme to apartment=Trajectory | ||||
| 12 | mind | length | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=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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