The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 20, sentence 82
Then the truth dawned on him; and, crushing the table between his hands, he turned to the chamberlain, who, bewildered and half-frightened, was wondering how to get away.
Who acts: truth, chamberlain · What happens: dawn, crush, turn, bewilder, frighten, wonder · To what, where: table, chamberlain
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 (truth, chamberlain), 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 | 4 dawned | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 truth | det |
| 3 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 dawned | nsubj |
| 4 | dawned | dawn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 him | case |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 dawned | obl |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 turned | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 turned | cc |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 crushing | punct |
| 10 | crushing | crush | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 turned | advcl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 table | det |
| 12 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 crushing | obj |
| 13 | between | between | ADP | _ | 15 hands | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 hands | nmod:poss |
| 15 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 table | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 crushing | punct |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 turned | nsubj |
| 18 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 dawned | conj |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 chamberlain | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 chamberlain | det |
| 21 | chamberlain | chamberlain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 turned | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 bewildered | punct |
| 23 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 bewildered | nsubj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 bewildered | punct |
| 25 | bewildered | bewilder | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 chamberlain | acl:relcl |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 frightened | cc |
| 27 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 29 frightened | compound |
| 28 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 27 half | punct |
| 29 | frightened | frighten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 bewildered | conj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 wondering | punct |
| 31 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 wondering | aux |
| 32 | wondering | wonder | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 turned | advcl |
| 33 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 35 get | advmod |
| 34 | to | to | PART | _ | 35 get | mark |
| 35 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 wondering | xcomp |
| 36 | away | away | ADV | _ | 35 get | advmod |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 dawned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dawn | participle | the truth | then | on Jack | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on he=Location | |||
| 2 | crush | gerund | truth not said here | the table | between Jack's hands | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent table=Patient | |||
| 3 | turn | past | truth | the chamberlain | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to chamberlain=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | bewilder | past | the chamberlain | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | frighten | participle | the chamberlain not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 6 | wonder speech: ask | past · progressive | truth not said here | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 7 | get away | to-infinitive | truth not said here | away property | vn withdraw-82-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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