The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 13, sentence 26
It was nearly midnight before he returned to the palace, but, instead of entering, he went down to the shore and hid behind a rock.
Who acts: matter, prince · What happens: be, return, enter, go down, hide · To what, where: midnight, palace, rock
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 (matter, 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 midnight | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 midnight | cop |
| 3 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 4 midnight | advmod |
| 4 | midnight | midnight | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 7 returned | mark |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 returned | nsubj |
| 7 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 midnight | acl:relcl |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 palace | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 palace | det |
| 10 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 returned | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 went | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 went | cc |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 entering | punct |
| 14 | instead | instead | ADV | ExtPos=SCONJ | 16 entering | mark |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 instead | fixed |
| 16 | entering | enter | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 went | advcl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 entering | punct |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 went | nsubj |
| 19 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 midnight | parataxis |
| 20 | down | down | ADV | _ | 19 went | advmod |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 shore | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 shore | det |
| 23 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 went | obl |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 hid | cc |
| 25 | hid | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 went | conj |
| 26 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 28 rock | case |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 rock | det |
| 28 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 hid | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 midnight | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | matter | midnight | nearly property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | return | past | prince | midnight not said here | the palace | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent midnight=Theme to palace=Destination | |||
| 3 | enter | gerund | prince not said here | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | go down | past | prince | to the shore; down property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 5 | hide | past | prince not said here | a rock | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent behind rock=Location |
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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