The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 14, sentence 47
No sooner had he gone, than the ogre who had been watching his chance for many days, knocked at the door of the palace.
Who acts: husband, ogre · What happens: go, watch, knock, chance · To what, where: chance
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 (husband, ogre), 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 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 sooner | det |
| 2 | sooner | soon | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 5 gone | advmod |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 gone | aux |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 gone | nsubj |
| 5 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 ogre | punct |
| 7 | than | than | ADP | _ | 9 ogre | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 ogre | det |
| 9 | ogre | ogre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 gone | obl |
| 10 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 watching | nsubj |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 watching | aux |
| 12 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 watching | aux |
| 13 | watching | watch | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 ogre | acl:relcl |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 chance | nmod:poss |
| 15 | chance | chance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 watching | obj |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 days | case |
| 17 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 days | amod |
| 18 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 watching | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 knocked | punct |
| 20 | knocked | knock | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 gone | conj |
| 21 | at | at | ADP | _ | 23 door | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 door | det |
| 23 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 knocked | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 palace | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 palace | det |
| 26 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 door | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 gone | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past · perfect | husband | than the ogre; soon property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | watch | past · perfect · progressive | the ogre | husband's chance | day | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chance=Theme | |||
| 3 | knock | participle | husband not said here | at the door of the palace | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at door=Patient | ||||
| 4 | chance | husband | nom chance «state intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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