The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 22, sentence 32
One day the queen was sitting alone by the side of a waterfall which sprung from some rocks in the large park adjoining the castle.
Who acts: queen, large park · What happens: sit, spring, adjoin · To what, where: waterfall, rocks, castle
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 (queen, large park), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sitting | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 queen | det |
| 4 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sitting | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 sitting | aux |
| 6 | sitting | sit | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 6 sitting | advmod |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 side | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 side | det |
| 10 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sitting | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 waterfall | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 waterfall | det |
| 13 | waterfall | waterfall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 side | nmod |
| 14 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 sprung | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | sprung | spring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 waterfall | acl:relcl |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 18 rocks | case |
| 17 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 18 rocks | det |
| 18 | rocks | rock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 sprung | obl |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 park | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 park | det |
| 21 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 park | amod |
| 22 | park | park | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 sprung | obl |
| 23 | adjoining | adjoin | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 22 park | acl |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 castle | det |
| 25 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 adjoining | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 sitting | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | past · progressive | the queen | day | by the side of a waterfall; alone property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by side=Location | |||
| 2 | spring | participle · passive | a waterfall | some rocks | in the large park | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | |||
| 3 | adjoin | gerund | the large park not said here | the castle | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme castle=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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