The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 17, sentence 34
'But as he was there, it is a pity he could not have brought away the golden cloak,' added they.
Who acts: king, lantern · What happens: be, not bring away, add · To what, where: pity, golden cloak, horses
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, 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 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 23 added | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 there | cc |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 6 there | mark |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 there | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 there | cop |
| 6 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 23 added | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 pity | punct |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 pity | nsubj |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 pity | cop |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 pity | det |
| 11 | pity | pity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 there | obl |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 brought | nsubj |
| 13 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 brought | aux |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 brought | advmod |
| 15 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 brought | aux |
| 16 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 pity | acl:relcl |
| 17 | away | away | ADV | _ | 16 brought | advmod |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 cloak | det |
| 19 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 cloak | amod |
| 20 | cloak | cloak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 brought | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 added | punct |
| 22 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 23 added | punct |
| 23 | added | add | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 24 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 added | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 23 added | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | king | there property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | lantern | a pity | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not bring away | could · perfect | king | the golden cloak | away property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent cloak=Theme | |||
| 4 | add speech: assert | past | horses = horse | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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