The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 17, sentence 36
And the young men described its beauties in such glowing words that the king declared he should never know a day's happiness till he had wrapped the cloak round his own shoulders.
Who acts: young men, king · What happens: describe, glow, declare, not know, wrap · To what, where: beauties, such glowing words, happiness, king · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (young men, king), 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 | _ | 5 described | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 men | det |
| 3 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 men | amod |
| 4 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 described | nsubj |
| 5 | described | describe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 beauties | nmod:poss |
| 7 | beauties | beauty | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 described | obj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 words | case |
| 9 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 words | amod |
| 10 | glowing | glow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 words | amod |
| 11 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 described | obl |
| 12 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 declared | obj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 king | det |
| 14 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 declared | nsubj |
| 15 | declared | declare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 words | acl:relcl |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 know | nsubj |
| 17 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 know | aux |
| 18 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 19 know | advmod |
| 19 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 declared | ccomp |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 day | det |
| 21 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 happiness | nmod:poss |
| 22 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 21 day | case |
| 23 | happiness | happiness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 know | obj |
| 24 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 27 wrapped | mark |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 wrapped | nsubj:pass |
| 26 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 wrapped | aux |
| 27 | wrapped | wrap | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 know | ccomp |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 cloak | det |
| 29 | cloak | cloak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 wrapped | obj |
| 30 | round | round | ADP | _ | 33 shoulders | case |
| 31 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 shoulders | nmod:poss |
| 32 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 shoulders | amod |
| 33 | shoulders | shoulder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 wrapped | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 described | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | describe | past | the young men | lantern's beauties | such glowing words | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent beauty=Theme | |||
| 2 | glow | gerund | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | declare speech: other | past | the king | such glowing words | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent that=Attribute clause=Theme | ||||
| 4 | not know | should | king | a day's happiness | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | wrap | past · perfect · passive | king | round king's own shoulders | tree rules |
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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