The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 20, sentence 85
But they were not quite so merry when they woke next morning and beheld ten thousand horsemen, and as many archers, surrounding the palace.
Who acts: courtiers · What happens: not be, wake, behold, surround · To what, where: thousand horsemen, palace
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 (courtiers), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 merry | cc |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 merry | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 merry | cop |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 merry | advmod |
| 5 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 7 merry | advmod |
| 6 | so | so | ADV | _ | 7 merry | advmod |
| 7 | merry | merry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 woke | advmod |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 woke | nsubj |
| 10 | woke | wake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 merry | parataxis |
| 11 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 morning | amod |
| 12 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 woke | obl:unmarked |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 beheld | cc |
| 14 | beheld | behold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 woke | conj |
| 15 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 thousand | compound |
| 16 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 horsemen | nummod |
| 17 | horsemen | horseman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 beheld | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 archers | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 archers | cc |
| 20 | as | as | ADV | _ | 21 many | advmod |
| 21 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 archers | amod |
| 22 | archers | archer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 merry | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 surrounding | punct |
| 24 | surrounding | surround | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 merry | advcl |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 palace | det |
| 26 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 surrounding | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 merry | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | past | courtiers = courtier | merry property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | wake | past | courtiers = courtier | morning | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | behold | participle | courtiers = courtier not said here | thousand horsemen | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer horseman=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | surround | gerund | courtiers = courtier not said here | the palace | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme palace=Co-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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