The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 13, sentence 14

Late that evening, when he had performed all the tiresome duties which fall to the lot of every prince, the young man was leaning out of his window, refreshing himself with the cool breezes that blew off the sea.

Who acts: prince, tiresome duties, young man, cool breezes · What happens: perform, fall, lean, refresh, blow off · To what, where: tiresome duties, window, prince, sea

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 (prince, tiresome duties, young man, cool breezes), 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	Late	late	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 evening	advmod
2	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 evening	det
3	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 performed	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 evening	punct
5	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 performed	advmod
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 performed	nsubj
7	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 performed	aux
8	performed	perform	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 duties	det:predet
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 duties	det
11	tiresome	tiresome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 duties	amod
12	duties	duty	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 performed	obj
13	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 fall	nsubj
14	fall	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 duties	acl:relcl
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 lot	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 lot	det
17	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 fall	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 prince	case
19	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	20 prince	det
20	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 lot	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 leaning	punct
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 man	det
23	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 man	amod
24	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 leaning	nsubj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 leaning	aux
26	leaning	lean	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 performed	advcl
27	out	out	ADP	_	30 window	case
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 window	case
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 window	nmod:poss
30	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 leaning	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 refreshing	punct
32	refreshing	refresh	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 leaning	conj
33	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	32 refreshing	obj
34	with	with	ADP	_	37 breezes	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 breezes	det
36	cool	cool	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 breezes	amod
37	breezes	breeze	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 refreshing	obl
38	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	39 blew	nsubj
39	blew	blow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 breezes	acl:relcl
40	off	off	ADP	_	42 sea	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 sea	det
42	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 blew	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 performed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	perform	past · perfect	prince	all tiresome duties		evening		vn performance-26.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent duty=Theme
2	fall	present	all tiresome duties				to the lot of every prince	vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to lot=Theme
3	lean	past · progressive	the young man		prince's window			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent out window=Location
4	refresh	gerund	the young man not said here	prince			with the cool breezes	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus himself=Experiencer
5	blow off	past	the cool breezes	the sea				vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent sea=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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