The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 14, sentence 103
At last, when the princess and her ladies had been forced to leave the upper rooms, where the walls and floors had melted away, and to take refuge in the hall, the young man came home.
Who acts: princess, walls, young man · What happens: force, leave, melt away, take, come · To what, where: princess, upper rooms, refuge, hall
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess, walls, young man), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 last | case |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 forced | punct |
| 4 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 forced | advmod |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 princess | det |
| 6 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 forced | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 ladies | cc |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 ladies | nmod:poss |
| 9 | ladies | lady | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 princess | conj |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 forced | aux |
| 11 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 forced | aux:pass |
| 12 | forced | force | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 last | conj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 leave | mark |
| 14 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 forced | xcomp |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 rooms | det |
| 16 | upper | upper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 rooms | amod |
| 17 | rooms | room | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 leave | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 melted | punct |
| 19 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 25 melted | advmod |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 walls | det |
| 21 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 melted | nsubj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 floors | cc |
| 23 | floors | floor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 walls | conj |
| 24 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 melted | aux |
| 25 | melted | melt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 rooms | acl |
| 26 | away | away | ADV | _ | 25 melted | advmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 take | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 take | cc |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 take | mark |
| 30 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 leave | conj |
| 31 | refuge | refuge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 take | obj |
| 32 | in | in | ADP | _ | 34 hall | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 hall | det |
| 34 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 take | obl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 came | punct |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 man | det |
| 37 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 man | amod |
| 38 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 came | nsubj |
| 39 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 take | parataxis |
| 40 | home | home | ADV | _ | 39 came | advmod |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 last | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | force | past · perfect · passive | the princess and princess's ladies | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | leave | to-infinitive | the princess and princess's ladies not said here | the upper rooms | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent room=Theme | ||||
| 3 | melt away | past · perfect | the walls and floors | away property | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | take | to-infinitive | the princess and princess's ladies not said here | refuge | the hall | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent refuge=Value in hall=Location | |||
| 5 | come | past | the young man | home property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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