The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 22, sentence 45
'Oh, that is the fairies' palace, and here are some of them coming to meet us.'
Who acts: that, some · What happens: be, come, meet · To what, where: palace, us
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 (that, some), 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 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 palace | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 9 palace | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 palace | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 palace | cop |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 fairies | det |
| 7 | fairies | fairy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 palace | nmod:poss |
| 8 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 7 fairies | case |
| 9 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 here | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 here | cc |
| 12 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 palace | advmod |
| 13 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 here | cop |
| 14 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 17 coming | nsubj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 them | case |
| 16 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 some | nmod |
| 17 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 palace | acl:relcl |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 meet | mark |
| 19 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 coming | advcl |
| 20 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 meet | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 palace | punct |
| 22 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 palace | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | that | the fairies's palace | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | present | here property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | come | gerund | some | the fairies's palace not said here | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location palace=Theme | ||||
| 4 | meet | to-infinitive | some not said here | us | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Co-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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