The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 20, sentence 51
'The dinner of an emperor!' when all sorts of food dishes appeared.
Who acts: dinner · What happens: appear, sort · To what, where: food dishes
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 (dinner), 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 | _ | 3 dinner | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 dinner | det |
| 3 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 appeared | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 emperor | case |
| 5 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 emperor | det |
| 6 | emperor | emperor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 dinner | nmod |
| 7 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 emperor | punct |
| 8 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 emperor | punct |
| 9 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 15 appeared | mark |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 sorts | det |
| 11 | sorts | sort | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 appeared | nsubj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 dishes | case |
| 13 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 dishes | compound |
| 14 | dishes | dish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 sorts | nmod |
| 15 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 appeared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | appear | past | the dinner of a emperor | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | sort | food dishes | nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=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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