The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 16, sentence 96
And besides this, he was to have a seat on the council.
Who acts: Pinkel · What happens: beside, have · To what, where: this, seat, council
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), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 2 besides | cc |
| 2 | besides | beside | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 besides | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 have | punct |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 have | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 have | aux |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 have | mark |
| 8 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 besides | parataxis |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 seat | det |
| 10 | seat | seat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 have | obj |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 council | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 council | det |
| 13 | council | council | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 seat | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 besides | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | beside | present | this | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | have | past | Pinkel | a seat | the council | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seat=Patient |
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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