The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 14, sentence 21
So she went to the palace, where she found the king sitting in the Hall of Justice listening to the petitions of his people.
Who acts: mother, king · What happens: go, find, sit, listen, petition · To what, where: palace, king, Hall, people
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 (mother, king), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 palace | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 palace | det |
| 6 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 found | punct |
| 8 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 10 found | advmod |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 found | nsubj |
| 10 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 king | det |
| 12 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 found | obj |
| 13 | sitting | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 found | xcomp |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 Hall | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Hall | det |
| 16 | Hall | Hall | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 sitting | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 Justice | case |
| 18 | Justice | Justice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Hall | nmod |
| 19 | listening | listen | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 sitting | advcl |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 petitions | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 petitions | det |
| 22 | petitions | petition | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 listening | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 people | case |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 people | nmod:poss |
| 25 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 petitions | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | mother | the palace | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to palace=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | find | past | mother | the king | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent king=Attribute clause=Theme | ||||
| 3 | sit | gerund | the king not said here | the Hall of Justice | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in hall=Location | ||||
| 4 | listen | gerund | the king not said here | to the petitions of Justice's people | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to petition=Theme | ||||
| 5 | petition | Justice's people | nom petition «communication transitive»: of=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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