The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 22, sentence 55
However, for the moment all was gaiety in the palace, and everybody inside ran to the windows to watch the fairies' carriages, for no two were alike.
Who acts: everybody, two · What happens: be, run, watch · To what, where: gaiety, palace, carriages
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 (everybody, two), 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 | However | however | ADV | _ | 8 gaiety | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 However | punct |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 moment | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 moment | det |
| 5 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 gaiety | obl |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 gaiety | det |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 gaiety | cop |
| 8 | gaiety | gaiety | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 palace | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 palace | det |
| 11 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 gaiety | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 ran | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 ran | cc |
| 14 | everybody | everybody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 16 ran | nsubj |
| 15 | inside | inside | ADV | _ | 16 ran | advmod |
| 16 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 gaiety | parataxis |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 windows | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 windows | det |
| 19 | windows | window | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 ran | obl |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 watch | mark |
| 21 | watch | watch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 ran | advcl |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 fairies | det |
| 23 | fairies | fairy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 carriages | nmod:poss |
| 24 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 23 fairies | case |
| 25 | carriages | carriage | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 watch | obj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 alike | punct |
| 27 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 31 alike | mark |
| 28 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 29 two | det |
| 29 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 31 alike | nsubj |
| 30 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 alike | cop |
| 31 | alike | alike | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 watch | parataxis |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 gaiety | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | all gaiety | the palace | moment | however property | tree rules | ||
| 2 | run | past | everybody | to the windows result; inside property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to window=Result | ||||
| 3 | watch | to-infinitive | everybody not said here | the fairies's carriages | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent carriage=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is | past | no two | alike property | 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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