The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 14, sentence 68
For some time she did not speak, but listened attentively to all the adventures that had befallen him that day.
Who acts: princess, adventures · What happens: not speak, listen, befall · To what, where: man · Speech: someone speaks here
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, adventures), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 3 time | case |
| 2 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 speak | obl |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 speak | nsubj |
| 5 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 speak | aux |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 speak | advmod |
| 7 | speak | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 listened | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 listened | cc |
| 10 | listened | listen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 speak | conj |
| 11 | attentively | attentively | ADV | _ | 10 listened | advmod |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 adventures | case |
| 13 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 adventures | det:predet |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 adventures | det |
| 15 | adventures | adventure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 listened | obl |
| 16 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 befallen | nsubj |
| 17 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 befallen | aux |
| 18 | befallen | befall | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 adventures | acl:relcl |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 befallen | obj |
| 20 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 21 day | det |
| 21 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 befallen | obl:unmarked |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 speak | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not speak speech: other | past · do-support | princess | time | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | listen | past | princess not said here | to all adventures; attentively property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to adventure=Theme | ||||
| 3 | befall | past · perfect | all adventures | man | day | tree rules |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/14/68/