The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 15, sentence 90
And at the first streak of dawn he went to the chamber where the queen lay in the midst of her maidens.
Who acts: Manu, queen · What happens: go, lie · To what, where: first streak, midst
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 (Manu, 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 went | cc |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 streak | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 streak | det |
| 4 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 5 streak | amod |
| 5 | streak | streak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 went | obl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 dawn | case |
| 7 | dawn | dawn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 streak | nmod |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 went | nsubj |
| 9 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 chamber | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 chamber | det |
| 12 | chamber | chamber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 went | obl |
| 13 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 16 lay | advmod |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 queen | det |
| 15 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 lay | nsubj |
| 16 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 chamber | acl:relcl |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 midst | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 midst | det |
| 19 | midst | midst | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 lay | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 maidens | case |
| 21 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 maidens | nmod:poss |
| 22 | maidens | maiden | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 midst | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Manu | the first streak of dawn | to the chamber | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to chamber=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | lie | past | the queen | the midst of queen's maidens | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in midst=Location |
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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