The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 16, sentence 60
Things went on this way for some time, and Pinkel every day rose in the royal favour.
Who acts: Things, Pinkel · What happens: go, rise · To what, where: way, royal favour
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 (Things, Pinkel), 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 | Things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 way | case |
| 4 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 way | det |
| 5 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 went | obl |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 time | case |
| 7 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 8 time | det |
| 8 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 went | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 rose | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 rose | cc |
| 11 | Pinkel | Pinkel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 rose | nsubj |
| 12 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 day | det |
| 13 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 Pinkel | appos |
| 14 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | conj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 favour | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 favour | det |
| 17 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 favour | amod |
| 18 | favour | favour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 rose | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Things | this way | time | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on way=Location | |||
| 2 | rise | past | Pinkel | the royal favour | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in favour=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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