The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 20, sentence 101
Then, one day, a rumour reached the king that a large army was marching against him.
Who acts: rumour, large army · What happens: reach, march · To what, where: king
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rumour, large army), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 reached | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Then | punct |
| 3 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 day | nummod |
| 4 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 reached | obl:unmarked |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 day | punct |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 rumour | det |
| 7 | rumour | rumour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 reached | nsubj |
| 8 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 king | det |
| 10 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 reached | obj |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 marching | obj |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 army | det |
| 13 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 army | amod |
| 14 | army | army | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 marching | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 marching | aux |
| 16 | marching | march | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 king | acl:relcl |
| 17 | against | against | ADP | _ | 18 him | case |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 marching | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 reached | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | past | a rumour | the king | then; day | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent king=Theme | |||
| 2 | march | past · progressive | a large army | the king | against rumour | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent that=Theme against he=Trajectory |
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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