The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 14, sentence 85

At the moment that he knocked at the door of the palace the princess had tired of all her employments, and her attendants were at their wits' end how to amuse her, when a tall negro dressed in scarlet came to announce that the ogre was below, and desired to know if the princess would speak to him.

Who acts: ogre, princess, attendants, tall negro · What happens: knock, have, be, amuse, dress, come · To what, where: palace, end, princess, tall negro, scarlet, ogre · 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 (ogre, princess, attendants, tall negro), 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	At	at	ADP	_	3 moment	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 moment	det
3	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 knocked	obl
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	6 knocked	mark
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 knocked	nsubj
6	knocked	knock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	at	at	ADP	_	9 door	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 door	det
9	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 knocked	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 palace	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 palace	det
12	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 door	nmod
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 princess	det
14	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 had	nsubj
15	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 palace	acl:relcl
16	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 had	xcomp
17	of	of	ADP	_	20 employments	case
18	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	20 employments	det:predet
19	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 employments	nmod:poss
20	employments	employment	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 tired	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 end	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 end	cc
23	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 attendants	nmod:poss
24	attendants	attendant	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 end	nsubj
25	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 end	cop
26	at	at	ADP	_	30 end	case
27	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 wits	nmod:poss
28	wits	wit	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 end	nmod:poss
29	'	's	PART	_	28 wits	case
30	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 knocked	obl
31	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	33 amuse	advmod
32	to	to	PART	_	33 amuse	mark
33	amuse	amuse	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 end	acl:relcl
34	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 amuse	obj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 came	punct
36	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	43 came	advmod
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 negro	det
38	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 negro	amod
39	negro	negro	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 came	nsubj
40	dressed	dress	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	39 negro	acl
41	in	in	ADP	_	42 scarlet	case
42	scarlet	scarlet	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 dressed	obl
43	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 amuse	advcl
44	to	to	PART	_	45 announce	mark
45	announce	announce	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	43 came	xcomp
46	that	that	SCONJ	_	50 below	mark
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 ogre	det
48	ogre	ogre	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 below	nsubj
49	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	50 below	cop
50	below	below	ADV	_	45 announce	advcl
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 desired	punct
52	and	and	CCONJ	_	53 desired	cc
53	desired	desire	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 knocked	conj
54	to	to	PART	_	55 know	mark
55	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	53 desired	xcomp
56	if	if	SCONJ	_	60 speak	mark
57	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	58 princess	det
58	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	60 speak	nsubj
59	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	60 speak	aux
60	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	55 know	ccomp
61	to	to	ADP	_	62 him	case
62	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	60 speak	obl
63	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 knocked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	knock	past	ogre				moment	at the door of the palace	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at door=Patient
2	have	past	the princess	the palace not said here				tired property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent palace=Patient
3	is	past	princess's attendants				at attendants's wits's end		tree rules
4	amuse	to-infinitive	ogre not said here	princess					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus she=Experiencer
5	dress	participle		a tall negro not said here		scarlet			vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	come	past	a tall negro						tree rules
7	announce speech: other	to-infinitive	a tall negro not said here						vn order-58.3 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
8	is	past	the ogre					below property	tree rules
9	desire	participle	ogre not said here						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
10	know not said to happen	to-infinitive	ogre not said here						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
11	speak speech: other a condition, not said to happen	would	the princess		ogre				vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to he=Co-Agent
12	employ		princess						nom employment «state transitive»: 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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