The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 16, sentence 47
The young men's hearts rejoiced as they thought that at last they would be able to rest their weary limbs, and they entered the hut, but were amazed to see an ugly old woman inside, wrapped in a cloak of gold which lighted up the whole house.
Who acts: hearts, brothers · What happens: rejoice, think, be, rest, enter, see · To what, where: that, last, weary limbs, hut, ugly old woman, cloak · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (hearts, brothers), 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 | 3 men | det |
| 2 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 men | amod |
| 3 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 hearts | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 men | case |
| 5 | hearts | heart | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 rejoiced | nsubj |
| 6 | rejoiced | rejoice | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 9 thought | mark |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 thought | nsubj |
| 9 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 rejoiced | advcl |
| 10 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 thought | obj |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 last | case |
| 12 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 able | obl |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 able | nsubj |
| 14 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 able | aux |
| 15 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 able | cop |
| 16 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 thought | ccomp |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 rest | mark |
| 18 | rest | rest | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 able | xcomp |
| 19 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 limbs | nmod:poss |
| 20 | weary | weary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 limbs | amod |
| 21 | limbs | limb | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 rest | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 entered | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 entered | cc |
| 24 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 entered | nsubj |
| 25 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 rejoiced | conj |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 hut | det |
| 27 | hut | hut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 entered | obj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 amazed | punct |
| 29 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 31 amazed | cc |
| 30 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 amazed | aux:pass |
| 31 | amazed | amazed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 rejoiced | parataxis |
| 32 | to | to | PART | _ | 33 see | mark |
| 33 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 amazed | advcl |
| 34 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 woman | det |
| 35 | ugly | ugly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 woman | amod |
| 36 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 woman | amod |
| 37 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 see | obj |
| 38 | inside | inside | ADV | _ | 33 see | advmod |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 wrapped | punct |
| 40 | wrapped | wrap | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 rejoiced | conj |
| 41 | in | in | ADP | _ | 43 cloak | case |
| 42 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 43 cloak | det |
| 43 | cloak | cloak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 wrapped | obl |
| 44 | of | of | ADP | _ | 45 gold | case |
| 45 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 cloak | nmod |
| 46 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 47 lighted | nsubj:pass |
| 47 | lighted | light | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 43 cloak | acl:relcl |
| 48 | up | up | ADP | _ | 47 lighted | compound:prt |
| 49 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 51 house | det |
| 50 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 51 house | amod |
| 51 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 lighted | obj |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 rejoiced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rejoice | past | the young men's hearts | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | brothers = brother | that | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot that=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | would | brothers = brother | last | able property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | rest | to-infinitive | brothers = brother not said here | brothers's weary limbs | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location limb=Theme | ||||
| 5 | enter | past | brothers = brother | the hut | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme hut=Destination | ||||
| 6 | see | to-infinitive | the young men's hearts not said here | a ugly old woman | inside property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer woman=Stimulus | |||
| 7 | wrap | participle | the young men's hearts not said here | a cloak of gold | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in cloak=Destination | ||||
| 8 | light up | participle · passive | a cloak of gold | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary house=Product |
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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