The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 15, sentence 52
Far away over the sea of the West there reigned a king who had two sons; and the name of the one was Oireal, and the name of the other was Iarlaid.
Who acts: king · What happens: reign, have, be, iarlai · To what, where: king, sea, two sons, Oireal, name
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 (king), 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 | Far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 2 away | advmod |
| 2 | away | away | ADV | _ | 10 reigned | advmod |
| 3 | over | over | ADP | _ | 5 sea | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 sea | det |
| 5 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 reigned | obl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 West | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 West | det |
| 8 | West | West | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 sea | nmod |
| 9 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 reigned | advmod |
| 10 | reigned | reign | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 king | det |
| 12 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 reigned | obj |
| 13 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 had | nsubj |
| 14 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 king | acl:relcl |
| 15 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 sons | nummod |
| 16 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 had | obj |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 name | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 name | cc |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 name | det |
| 20 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 reigned | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 one | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 one | det |
| 23 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 Oireal | obl |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 Oireal | cop |
| 25 | Oireal | Oireal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 name | nmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 Iarlaid | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 Iarlaid | cc |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 name | det |
| 29 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 Iarlaid | nsubj:pass |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 other | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 other | det |
| 32 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 name | nmod |
| 33 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 Iarlaid | aux:pass |
| 34 | Iarlaid | iarlai | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 reigned | conj |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 reigned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reign | past | a king | the sea of the West; there | the name obl; away property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | have | past | a king | two sons | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient | ||||
| 3 | is a | past | Oireal | of the one | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | iarlai | past · passive | the name of the other | 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.
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