The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 13, sentence 12
Unfortunately, as they entered, the princess was so enraged at the sight of them that she forgot all about the doves, and shrieked out: 'Dirty creatures! dirty creatures!' which so offended the physicians that they left the room at once, and nothing that the prince could say would prevail on them to remain.
Who acts: leeches, princess, physicians, prince, Dirty creatures · What happens: enter, enrage, forget, shriek out, offend, leave · To what, where: princess, sight, doves, dirty creatures, room, leeches · 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 (leeches, princess, physicians, prince), 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 | Unfortunately | unfortunately | ADV | _ | 11 enraged | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Unfortunately | punct |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 5 entered | mark |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 entered | nsubj |
| 5 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 enraged | advcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 entered | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 princess | det |
| 8 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 enraged | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 enraged | aux:pass |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 11 enraged | advmod |
| 11 | enraged | enrage | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 58 prevail | advcl |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 sight | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 sight | det |
| 14 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 enraged | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 them | case |
| 16 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 sight | nmod |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 forgot | mark |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 forgot | nsubj |
| 19 | forgot | forget | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 enraged | advcl |
| 20 | all | all | ADV | _ | 23 doves | advmod |
| 21 | about | about | ADP | _ | 23 doves | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 doves | det |
| 23 | doves | dove | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 forgot | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 shrieked | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 shrieked | cc |
| 26 | shrieked | shriek | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 forgot | conj |
| 27 | out | out | ADP | _ | 26 shrieked | compound:prt |
| 28 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 31 creatures | punct |
| 29 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 31 creatures | punct |
| 30 | Dirty | dirty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 creatures | amod |
| 31 | creatures | creature | NOUN | Number=Plur | 58 prevail | nsubj |
| 32 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 34 creatures | punct |
| 33 | dirty | dirty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 creatures | amod |
| 34 | creatures | creature | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 creatures | appos |
| 35 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 34 creatures | punct |
| 36 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 34 creatures | punct |
| 37 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 39 offended | obj |
| 38 | so | so | ADV | _ | 39 offended | advmod |
| 39 | offended | offend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 creatures | acl:relcl |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 physicians | det |
| 41 | physicians | physician | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 offended | obj |
| 42 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 44 left | nsubj |
| 43 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 left | nsubj |
| 44 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 41 physicians | acl:relcl |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 room | det |
| 46 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 left | obj |
| 47 | at | at | ADP | _ | 48 once | case |
| 48 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 44 left | obl |
| 49 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 51 nothing | punct |
| 50 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 51 nothing | cc |
| 51 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 58 prevail | nsubj |
| 52 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 56 say | mark |
| 53 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 54 prince | det |
| 54 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 56 say | nsubj |
| 55 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 56 say | aux |
| 56 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 51 nothing | acl |
| 57 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 58 prevail | aux |
| 58 | prevail | prevail | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 59 | on | on | ADP | _ | 60 them | case |
| 60 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 58 prevail | obl |
| 61 | to | to | PART | _ | 62 remain | mark |
| 62 | remain | remain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 58 prevail | advcl |
| 63 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 58 prevail | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enter | past | leeches = leech | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | enrage | past · passive | the princess | the sight of leeches | unfortunately property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | |||
| 3 | forget | past | princess | the doves | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | shriek out | past | princess not said here | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | offend | past | dirty creatures | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Stimulus which=Experiencer physician=Result | |||||
| 6 | leave | past | the physicians | the room | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent room=Theme at once=Location | ||||
| 7 | say speech: assert | could | the prince | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 8 | prevail | would | Dirty creatures | on leeches = leech | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on they=Location | ||||
| 9 | remain | to-infinitive | Dirty creatures not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 10 | sight | leeches = leech | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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