The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 13, sentence 15
His thoughts went back to the scene of the morning, and he wondered if, after all, he had not made a great mistake in marrying a low-born wife, however beautiful she might be.
Who acts: thoughts, prince, great mistake, wife · What happens: go back, wonder, not make, marry, bear, be · To what, where: great mistake, born wife
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 (thoughts, prince, great mistake, 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 thoughts | nmod:poss |
| 2 | thoughts | thought | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | back | back | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 scene | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 scene | det |
| 7 | scene | scene | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 morning | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 morning | det |
| 10 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 scene | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 wondered | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 wondered | cc |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 wondered | nsubj |
| 14 | wondered | wonder | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 15 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 14 wondered | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 all | punct |
| 17 | after | after | ADP | _ | 18 all | case |
| 18 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 wondered | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 made | punct |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 made | nsubj |
| 21 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 made | aux |
| 22 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 made | advmod |
| 23 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 went | parataxis |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 mistake | det |
| 25 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 mistake | amod |
| 26 | mistake | mistake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 made | obj |
| 27 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 28 marrying | mark |
| 28 | marrying | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 26 mistake | acl |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 wife | det |
| 30 | low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 born | compound |
| 31 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 30 low | punct |
| 32 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 33 wife | amod |
| 33 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 marrying | obj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 beautiful | punct |
| 35 | however | however | ADV | _ | 36 beautiful | advmod |
| 36 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 made | xcomp |
| 37 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 be | nsubj |
| 38 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 39 be | aux |
| 39 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 36 beautiful | ccomp |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go back | past | prince's thoughts | to the scene of the morning result | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to scene=Result | ||||
| 2 | wonder speech: ask | past | prince | after all | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | not make | past · perfect | prince | a great mistake | beautiful property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mistake=Product | |||
| 4 | marry | gerund | a great mistake not said here | a born wife | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Patient | ||||
| 5 | bear | participle | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 6 | be | might | wife | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 7 | think | prince | nom thought «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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