The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 13, sentence 8
But when he got there, the princess, for she indeed it was, had disappeared completely, and he began to wonder if his eyes had deceived him.
Who acts: length, eyes · What happens: get, disappear, begin, wonder, deceive · To what, where: princess, length
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 (length, eyes), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 got | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 got | advmod |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 got | nsubj |
| 4 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 got | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 princess | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 princess | det |
| 8 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 got | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 disappeared | punct |
| 10 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 17 disappeared | mark |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 disappeared | nsubj |
| 12 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 17 disappeared | advmod |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 disappeared | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 disappeared | aux:pass |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 disappeared | punct |
| 16 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 disappeared | aux |
| 17 | disappeared | disappear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 got | advcl |
| 18 | completely | completely | ADV | _ | 17 disappeared | advmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 began | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 began | cc |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 began | nsubj |
| 22 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 got | conj |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 wonder | mark |
| 24 | wonder | wonder | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 began | xcomp |
| 25 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 29 deceived | mark |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 27 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 deceived | nsubj |
| 28 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 deceived | aux |
| 29 | deceived | deceive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 24 wonder | ccomp |
| 30 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 deceived | obj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | length | the princess | there | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | disappear | past · perfect · passive | princess | completely, indeed property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | begin | past | length | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | wonder speech: ask | to-infinitive | length not said here | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | deceive a condition, not said to happen | past · perfect | length's eyes | length | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient |
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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