The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 14, sentence 22
The woman waited until all had been heard and the hall was empty, and then went up and knelt before the throne.
Who acts: woman, hall · What happens: wait, hear, be, go up, kneel · To what, where: throne
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 (woman, hall), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 woman | det |
| 2 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 waited | nsubj |
| 3 | waited | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 8 heard | mark |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 heard | advmod |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 heard | aux |
| 7 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 heard | aux:pass |
| 8 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 waited | conj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 empty | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 hall | det |
| 11 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 empty | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 empty | cop |
| 13 | empty | empty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 heard | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 went | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 went | cc |
| 16 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 went | advmod |
| 17 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 waited | conj |
| 18 | up | up | ADP | _ | 17 went | compound:prt |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 knelt | cc |
| 20 | knelt | kneel | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 went | conj |
| 21 | before | before | ADP | _ | 23 throne | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 throne | det |
| 23 | throne | throne | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 knelt | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 waited | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | past | the woman | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | hear | past · perfect · passive | the woman not said here | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus» | |||||
| 3 | is | past | the hall | empty property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | go up | past | the woman not said here | then | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 5 | kneel | participle | the woman not said here | the throne | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before throne=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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