The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 15, sentence 101
The queen looked from her window and beheld him mounting the hill, with the twelve foster brothers behind him.
Who acts: queen · What happens: look, behold, mount · To what, where: voyage, hill
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (queen), 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 queen | det |
| 2 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 looked | nsubj |
| 3 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 window | case |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 window | nmod:poss |
| 6 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 looked | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 beheld | cc |
| 8 | beheld | behold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 looked | conj |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 beheld | obj |
| 10 | mounting | mount | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 beheld | advcl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 hill | det |
| 12 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 mounting | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 brothers | punct |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 brothers | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 brothers | det |
| 16 | twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 brothers | nummod |
| 17 | foster | foster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 brothers | compound |
| 18 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 mounting | obl |
| 19 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 20 him | case |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 brothers | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | the queen | from queen's window | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent from window=Theme | ||||
| 2 | behold | past | the queen not said here | voyage | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | mount | gerund | the queen not said here | the hill | with the twelve foster brothers behind voyage | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent hill=Patient with brother=Instrument |
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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