The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 17, sentence 89
People said that it was the bride who ought to have worn the cloak at her wedding feast; but the king was so pleased with it that he would not part from it; and to the end of his life was never seen without it.
Who acts: People, hand, bride, king · What happens: say, be, wear, not part, not see · To what, where: bride, cloak, wedding feast, hand · 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 (People, hand, bride, 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 | People | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 said | nsubj |
| 2 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 bride | mark |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 bride | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 bride | cop |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 bride | det |
| 7 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 said | ccomp |
| 8 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 worn | nsubj |
| 9 | ought | ought | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 worn | aux |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 worn | mark |
| 11 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 worn | aux |
| 12 | worn | wear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 bride | acl:relcl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 cloak | det |
| 14 | cloak | cloak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 worn | obj |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 feast | case |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 feast | nmod:poss |
| 17 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 feast | compound |
| 18 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 worn | obl |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 pleased | punct |
| 20 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 25 pleased | cc |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 king | det |
| 22 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 pleased | nsubj |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 pleased | cop |
| 24 | so | so | ADV | _ | 25 pleased | advmod |
| 25 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 said | ccomp |
| 26 | with | with | ADP | _ | 27 it | case |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 pleased | obl |
| 28 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 32 part | mark |
| 29 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 part | nsubj |
| 30 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 32 part | aux |
| 31 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 32 part | advmod |
| 32 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 pleased | advcl |
| 33 | from | from | ADP | _ | 34 it | case |
| 34 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 part | nmod |
| 35 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 45 seen | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 seen | cc |
| 37 | to | to | ADP | _ | 39 end | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 end | det |
| 39 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 seen | obl |
| 40 | of | of | ADP | _ | 42 life | case |
| 41 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 42 life | nmod:poss |
| 42 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 end | nmod |
| 43 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 45 seen | aux:pass |
| 44 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 45 seen | advmod |
| 45 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 said | conj |
| 46 | without | without | ADP | _ | 47 it | case |
| 47 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 45 seen | obl |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | People | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a | past | hand | the bride | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | wear | ought · perfect | the bride | the cloak | cloak's wedding feast | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent cloak=Theme | |||
| 4 | is | past | the king | with hand; pleased property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | not part | would | king | hand | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | not see | past · passive | People not said here | to the end of king's life | without hand | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V» |
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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