The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 20, sentence 97
He reigned long and well, and died a very old man, beloved by his people.
Who acts: Jack · What happens: reign, die, belov · To what, where: old man
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 (Jack), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 reigned | nsubj |
| 2 | reigned | reign | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 2 reigned | advmod |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 well | cc |
| 5 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 long | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 died | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 died | cc |
| 8 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 reigned | conj |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 man | det |
| 10 | very | very | ADV | _ | 11 old | advmod |
| 11 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 man | amod |
| 12 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 died | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 beloved | punct |
| 14 | beloved | belov | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 man | acl |
| 15 | by | by | ADP | _ | 17 people | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 people | nmod:poss |
| 17 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 beloved | obl:agent |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 reigned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reign | past | Jack | long property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | die | past | Jack not said here | a old man | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | belov | participle | a old man not said here | tree rules |
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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