The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 13, sentence 18
He was thinking these thoughts, when his eyes fell on the sea beneath him, and there, as before, was the figure that so closely resembled his wife, standing with her feet in the water, holding out her arms to him.
Who acts: prince, eyes, thinking · What happens: think, fall, be, resemble, stand, hold out · To what, where: thoughts, sea, figure, water, arms, prince
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, eyes, thinking), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 thinking | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 thinking | aux |
| 3 | thinking | think | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 25 figure | csubj |
| 4 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 5 thoughts | det |
| 5 | thoughts | thought | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 thinking | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 fell | punct |
| 7 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 fell | advmod |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 9 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 fell | nsubj |
| 10 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 thoughts | conj |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 sea | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 sea | det |
| 13 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 fell | obl |
| 14 | beneath | beneath | ADP | _ | 15 him | case |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 fell | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 there | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 there | cc |
| 18 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 thinking | parataxis |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 before | punct |
| 20 | as | as | ADP | _ | 21 before | case |
| 21 | before | before | ADV | _ | 18 there | advmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 thinking | punct |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 figure | cop |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 figure | det |
| 25 | figure | figure | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 26 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 29 resembled | obj |
| 27 | so | so | ADV | _ | 29 resembled | advmod |
| 28 | closely | closely | ADV | _ | 29 resembled | advmod |
| 29 | resembled | resemble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 figure | acl:relcl |
| 30 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 wife | nmod:poss |
| 31 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 resembled | obj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 standing | punct |
| 33 | standing | stand | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 29 resembled | advcl |
| 34 | with | with | ADP | _ | 36 feet | case |
| 35 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 feet | nmod:poss |
| 36 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 standing | obl |
| 37 | in | in | ADP | _ | 39 water | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 water | det |
| 39 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 standing | obl |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 holding | punct |
| 41 | holding | hold | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 33 standing | conj |
| 42 | out | out | ADP | _ | 41 holding | compound:prt |
| 43 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 44 arms | nmod:poss |
| 44 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 holding | obj |
| 45 | to | to | ADP | _ | 46 him | case |
| 46 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 holding | obl |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 25 figure | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past · progressive | prince | this thoughts | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot thought=Theme | ||||
| 2 | fall | past | prince's eyes | the sea | beneath prince | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on sea=Location | |||
| 3 | is a | past | thinking | the figure | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | resemble | past | the figure | closely property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | stand | gerund | the water | with wife's feet | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in water=Location | ||||
| 6 | hold out | gerund | wife's arms | prince | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arm=Theme |
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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