The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 16, sentence 92
The sun had not yet risen when Pinkel returned to the palace, and, entering the king's chamber, he held up the lantern so that its rays might fall upon the bed.
Who acts: Pinkel, rays, sun · What happens: not rise, return, enter, hold up, fall, ray · To what, where: sun, chamber, lantern, bed
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 (Pinkel, rays, sun), 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 | 2 sun | det |
| 2 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 risen | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 risen | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 risen | advmod |
| 5 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 6 risen | advmod |
| 6 | risen | rise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 returned | advmod |
| 8 | Pinkel | Pinkel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 returned | nsubj |
| 9 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 risen | advcl |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 palace | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 palace | det |
| 12 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 returned | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 held | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 held | cc |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 entering | punct |
| 16 | entering | enter | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 23 held | advcl |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 king | det |
| 18 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 chamber | nmod:poss |
| 19 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 18 king | case |
| 20 | chamber | chamber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 entering | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 entering | punct |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 held | nsubj |
| 23 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 risen | conj |
| 24 | up | up | ADP | _ | 23 held | compound:prt |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 lantern | det |
| 26 | lantern | lantern | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 held | obj |
| 27 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 32 fall | mark |
| 28 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 27 so | fixed |
| 29 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 rays | nmod:poss |
| 30 | rays | ray | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 fall | nsubj |
| 31 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 32 fall | aux |
| 32 | fall | fall | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 held | advcl |
| 33 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 35 bed | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 bed | det |
| 35 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 fall | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 risen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not rise | past · perfect · passive | the sun | yet | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | return | past | Pinkel | to the palace result | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to palace=Result | ||||
| 3 | enter | gerund | Pinkel not said here | the king's chamber | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme chamber=Destination | ||||
| 4 | hold up | past | Pinkel | the lantern | vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot lantern=Theme | ||||
| 5 | fall | might | sun's rays | the bed | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon bed=Location | ||||
| 6 | ray | sun | nom ray «phenomenon transitive»: poss=agent |
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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