The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 13, sentence 23
A state ceremonial in a city some distance off caused the prince to ride away at daybreak, and he left without seeing his wife again.
Who acts: state ceremonial, prince · What happens: cause, ride away, leave, see · To what, where: prince, daybreak, 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 (state ceremonial, 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 ceremonial | det |
| 2 | state | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ceremonial | compound |
| 3 | ceremonial | ceremonial | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 caused | nsubj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 city | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 city | det |
| 6 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ceremonial | nmod |
| 7 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 8 distance | det |
| 8 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 caused | nsubj |
| 9 | off | off | ADV | _ | 10 caused | advmod |
| 10 | caused | cause | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 prince | det |
| 12 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 caused | obj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 ride | mark |
| 14 | ride | ride | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 caused | advcl |
| 15 | away | away | ADV | _ | 14 ride | advmod |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 daybreak | case |
| 17 | daybreak | daybreak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 ride | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 left | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 left | cc |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 left | nsubj |
| 21 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 caused | conj |
| 22 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 23 seeing | mark |
| 23 | seeing | see | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 left | advcl |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 wife | nmod:poss |
| 25 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 seeing | obj |
| 26 | again | again | ADV | _ | 23 seeing | advmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 caused | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cause | past | a state ceremonial in a city | the prince | off property | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition prince=Patient | |||
| 2 | ride away | to-infinitive | a state ceremonial in a city not said here | daybreak | away property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | leave | past | prince | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | see | gerund | prince not said here | prince's wife | again | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer wife=Stimulus |
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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