The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 13, sentence 25
Then he put the matter from his mind, and kept his thoughts on the duty that lay before him.
Who acts: prince, duty · What happens: put, keep, lie, mind, think · To what, where: matter, mind, thoughts, duty
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, duty), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 put | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 put | nsubj |
| 3 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 matter | det |
| 5 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 put | obj |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 mind | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 mind | nmod:poss |
| 8 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 put | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 kept | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 kept | cc |
| 11 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 put | conj |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 thoughts | nmod:poss |
| 13 | thoughts | thought | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 kept | obj |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 duty | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 duty | det |
| 16 | duty | duty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 kept | obl |
| 17 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 lay | nsubj |
| 18 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 duty | acl:relcl |
| 19 | before | before | ADP | _ | 20 him | case |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 lay | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | past | prince | the matter | prince's mind | then | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent matter=Goal | ||
| 2 | keep | past | prince not said here | prince's thoughts | the duty | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent thought=Theme on duty=Location | |||
| 3 | lie | past | the duty | before prince | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before he=Location | ||||
| 4 | mind | prince | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 5 | 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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