The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 20, sentence 66
Here he waited until everybody in the house was sound asleep, when he drew his bag from under his cloak, and desired that a castle might appear in that place; and the cornet gave him soldiers to guard the castle, while the table furnished him with a good supper.
Who acts: man, everybody, castle, cornet, table · What happens: wait, be, draw, desire, appear, give · To what, where: bag, cloak, place, soldiers, man, castle
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 (man, everybody, castle, cornet), 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 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 waited | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 waited | nsubj |
| 3 | waited | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 11 asleep | mark |
| 5 | everybody | everybody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 11 asleep | nsubj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 house | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 house | det |
| 8 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 everybody | nmod |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 asleep | cop |
| 10 | sound | sound | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 asleep | amod |
| 11 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 waited | advcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 drew | punct |
| 13 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 drew | advmod |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 drew | nsubj |
| 15 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 waited | conj |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 bag | nmod:poss |
| 17 | bag | bag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 drew | obj |
| 18 | from | from | ADP | _ | 21 cloak | case |
| 19 | under | under | ADP | _ | 21 cloak | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 cloak | nmod:poss |
| 21 | cloak | cloak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 drew | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 desired | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 desired | cc |
| 24 | desired | desire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 waited | conj |
| 25 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 29 appear | mark |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 castle | det |
| 27 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 appear | nsubj |
| 28 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 appear | aux |
| 29 | appear | appear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 desired | ccomp |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 place | case |
| 31 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 32 place | det |
| 32 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 appear | obl |
| 33 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 37 gave | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 gave | cc |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 cornet | det |
| 36 | cornet | cornet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 gave | nsubj |
| 37 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 waited | conj |
| 38 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 gave | iobj |
| 39 | soldiers | soldier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 gave | obj |
| 40 | to | to | PART | _ | 41 guard | mark |
| 41 | guard | guard | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 37 gave | advcl |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 castle | det |
| 43 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 guard | obj |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 furnished | punct |
| 45 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 48 furnished | mark |
| 46 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 47 table | det |
| 47 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 furnished | nsubj |
| 48 | furnished | furnish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 waited | conj |
| 49 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 48 furnished | obj |
| 50 | with | with | ADP | _ | 53 supper | case |
| 51 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 53 supper | det |
| 52 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 53 supper | amod |
| 53 | supper | supper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 furnished | obl |
| 54 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 waited | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | past | man | here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | past | everybody | asleep property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | draw | past | man | man's bag | man's cloak | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent bag=Theme from cloak=Initial_Location | |||
| 4 | desire | past | man not said here | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | appear | might | a castle | that place | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in place=Location | ||||
| 6 | give | past | the cornet | soldiers | man | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient soldier=Theme | |||
| 7 | guard | to-infinitive | the cornet not said here | the castle | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent castle=Beneficiary | ||||
| 8 | furnish | past | the table | man | with a good supper | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent he=Recipient with supper=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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