The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 16, sentence 100
From this moment the king never closed his eyes at night for longing after this wonderful creature.
Who acts: king · What happens: not close, long · To what, where: eyes
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 16. 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 | From | from | ADP | _ | 3 moment | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 moment | det |
| 3 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 closed | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 king | det |
| 5 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 closed | nsubj |
| 6 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 7 closed | advmod |
| 7 | closed | close | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 9 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 closed | obj |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 night | case |
| 11 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 closed | obl |
| 12 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 13 longing | mark |
| 13 | longing | long | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 closed | advcl |
| 14 | after | after | ADP | _ | 17 creature | case |
| 15 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 creature | det |
| 16 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 creature | amod |
| 17 | creature | creature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 longing | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 closed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not close | past | the king | king's eyes | moment; night | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient | |||
| 2 | long | gerund | the king not said here | after this wonderful creature | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot |
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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