The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 22, sentence 31
They never talked about it, and always pretended that there was nothing in the world to wish for; but, sometimes when they looked at other people's children, their faces grew sad, and their courtiers and attendants knew the reason why.
Who acts: king, nothing, faces, courtiers · What happens: not talk, pretend, be, wish, look, grow · To what, where: reason
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, nothing, faces, 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 talked | nsubj |
| 2 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 3 talked | advmod |
| 3 | talked | talk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | about | about | ADP | _ | 5 it | case |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 talked | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 pretended | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 pretended | cc |
| 8 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 9 pretended | advmod |
| 9 | pretended | pretend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 talked | conj |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 was | mark |
| 11 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 12 was | expl |
| 12 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 pretended | advcl |
| 13 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 12 was | nsubj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 world | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 world | det |
| 16 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 nothing | nmod |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 wish | mark |
| 18 | wish | wish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 nothing | acl |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 wish | obl |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 looked | punct |
| 21 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 26 looked | cc |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 looked | punct |
| 23 | sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 26 looked | advmod |
| 24 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 26 looked | advmod |
| 25 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 looked | nsubj |
| 26 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 talked | conj |
| 27 | at | at | ADP | _ | 31 children | case |
| 28 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 people | amod |
| 29 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 children | nmod:poss |
| 30 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 29 people | case |
| 31 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 looked | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 grew | punct |
| 33 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 faces | nmod:poss |
| 34 | faces | face | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 grew | nsubj |
| 35 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 talked | conj |
| 36 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 grew | xcomp |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 knew | punct |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 knew | cc |
| 39 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 40 courtiers | nmod:poss |
| 40 | courtiers | courtier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 43 knew | nsubj |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 attendants | cc |
| 42 | attendants | attendant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 courtiers | conj |
| 43 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 grew | conj |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 reason | det |
| 45 | reason | reason | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 knew | obj |
| 46 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 45 reason | advmod |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 talked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not talk | past | king | about Doe | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about it=Topic | ||||
| 2 | pretend | past | king not said here | always property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be | past | nothing | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | wish | to-infinitive | nothing not said here | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 5 | look | past | king | at other people's children; sometimes property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at child=Theme | ||||
| 6 | grow | past | king's faces | sad property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 7 | know | past | king's courtiers and attendants | the reason | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer reason=Stimulus |
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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