The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 14, sentence 81
The princess was a little startled by his manner, and began to be sorry that she had every listened to the ogre.
Who acts: manner, princess, every · What happens: startle, begin, be, have, listen · To what, where: princess, every
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 (manner, princess, every), 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 princess | det |
| 2 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 startled | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 startled | aux:pass |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 little | det |
| 5 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 startled | obl:unmarked |
| 6 | startled | startle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 manner | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 manner | nmod:poss |
| 9 | manner | manner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 startled | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 began | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 began | cc |
| 12 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 startled | conj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 sorry | mark |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 sorry | cop |
| 15 | sorry | sorry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 began | xcomp |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 had | mark |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 had | nsubj |
| 18 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 sorry | ccomp |
| 19 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 had | obj |
| 20 | listened | listen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 had | xcomp |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 ogre | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 ogre | det |
| 23 | ogre | ogre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 listened | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 startled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | startle | past · passive | man's manner | the princess | a little obl:unmarked | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus subject=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | begin | past | man's manner not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | is | to-infinitive | man's manner not said here | sorry property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | have | past | princess | every | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | listen | participle | every not said here | to the ogre | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to ogre=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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