The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 16, sentence 93
In an instant the king awoke, and seeing the golden lantern shedding its light upon him, he sprang up, and embraced Pinkel with joy.
Who acts: king, golden lantern, lantern · What happens: awake, see, shed, spring up, embrace, light · To what, where: instant, golden lantern, light, Pinkel
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, golden lantern, lantern), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 instant | case |
| 2 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 instant | det |
| 3 | instant | instant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 awoke | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 king | det |
| 5 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 awoke | nsubj |
| 6 | awoke | awake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 sprang | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 sprang | cc |
| 9 | seeing | see | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 sprang | advcl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 lantern | det |
| 11 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 lantern | amod |
| 12 | lantern | lantern | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 seeing | obj |
| 13 | shedding | shed | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 lantern | acl |
| 14 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 light | nmod:poss |
| 15 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 shedding | obj |
| 16 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 17 him | case |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 shedding | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 seeing | punct |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 sprang | nsubj |
| 20 | sprang | spring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 awoke | conj |
| 21 | up | up | ADP | _ | 20 sprang | compound:prt |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 embraced | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 embraced | cc |
| 24 | embraced | embrace | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 awoke | conj |
| 25 | Pinkel | Pinkel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 embraced | obj |
| 26 | with | with | ADP | _ | 27 joy | case |
| 27 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 embraced | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 awoke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | awake | past | the king | a instant | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in instant=Location | ||||
| 2 | see | gerund | king not said here | the golden lantern | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer lantern=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | shed | gerund | the golden lantern not said here | lantern's light | upon king | vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location light=Source | |||
| 4 | spring up | past | king | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | embrace | past | the king not said here | Pinkel | with joy | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pinkel=Co-Agent | |||
| 6 | light | lantern | nom light «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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