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The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 20, sentence 105

And the king bowed his head to the doom that awaited him, and in his heart cursed the ruin wrought by the pride and foolishness of himself and his forefathers.

Who acts: king, doom · What happens: bow, await, curse · To what, where: head, doom, army, ruin, heart

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 (king, doom), 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

ccdetnsubjnmod:possobjcasedetoblnsubjacl:relclobjpunctcccasenmod:possoblconjdetobjxcompcasedetoblccconjcasenmodccnmod:possconjpunctrootAndCCONJtheDETkingNOUNbowedVERBhisPRONheadNOUNtoADPtheDETdoomNOUNthatPRONawaitedVERBhimPRON,PUNCTandCCONJinADPhisPRONheartNOUNcursedVERBtheDETruinNOUNwroughtADJbyADPtheDETprideNOUNandCCONJfoolishnessNOUNofADPhimselfPRONandCCONJhisPRONforefathersNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1AndandCCONJ_4 bowedcc
2thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art3 kingdet
3kingkingNOUNNumber=Sing4 bowednsubj
4bowedbowVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
5hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs6 headnmod:poss
6headheadNOUNNumber=Sing4 bowedobj
7totoADP_9 doomcase
8thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art9 doomdet
9doomdoomNOUNNumber=Sing4 bowedobl
10thatthatPRONPronType=Rel11 awaitednsubj
11awaitedawaitVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin9 doomacl:relcl
12himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs11 awaitedobj
13,,PUNCT_18 cursedpunct
14andandCCONJ_18 cursedcc
15ininADP_17 heartcase
16hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs17 heartnmod:poss
17heartheartNOUNNumber=Sing18 cursedobl
18cursedcurseVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin4 bowedconj
19thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art20 ruindet
20ruinruinNOUNNumber=Sing18 cursedobj
21wroughtwroughtADJDegree=Pos18 cursedxcomp
22bybyADP_24 pridecase
23thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art24 pridedet
24prideprideNOUNNumber=Sing18 cursedobl
25andandCCONJ_26 foolishnesscc
26foolishnessfoolishnessNOUNNumber=Sing24 prideconj
27ofofADP_28 himselfcase
28himselfhimselfPRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes26 foolishnessnmod
29andandCCONJ_31 forefatherscc
30hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs31 forefathersnmod:poss
31forefathersforefatherNOUNNumber=Plur28 himselfconj
32..PUNCT_4 bowedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1bowpastthe kingarmy's headthe doomvn curtsey-40.3.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent head=Topic to doom=Recipient
2awaitpastthe doomarmytree rules
3cursepastthe king not said herethe ruinarmy's heartby the pride and foolishness of army; wrought propertyvn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ruin=Theme

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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