The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 22, sentence 58
The fairies entered the queen's chamber followed by little dwarfs who carried their presents and looked much prouder than their mistresses.
Who acts: fairies, little dwarfs · What happens: enter, follow, carry, look · To what, where: chamber, presents
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 (fairies, little dwarfs), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 fairies | det |
| 2 | fairies | fairy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 entered | nsubj |
| 3 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 queen | det |
| 5 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 chamber | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 queen | case |
| 7 | chamber | chamber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 entered | obj |
| 8 | followed | follow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 chamber | acl |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 dwarfs | case |
| 10 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 dwarfs | amod |
| 11 | dwarfs | dwarf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 followed | obl |
| 12 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 carried | nsubj |
| 13 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 dwarfs | acl:relcl |
| 14 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 presents | nmod:poss |
| 15 | presents | present | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 carried | obj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 looked | cc |
| 17 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 carried | conj |
| 18 | much | much | ADV | _ | 19 prouder | advmod |
| 19 | prouder | proud | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 17 looked | xcomp |
| 20 | than | than | ADP | _ | 22 mistresses | case |
| 21 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 mistresses | nmod:poss |
| 22 | mistresses | mistress | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 prouder | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 entered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enter | past | the fairies | the queen's chamber | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme chamber=Destination | ||||
| 2 | follow | participle | the queen's chamber not said here | by little dwarfs | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by dwarf=Location | ||||
| 3 | carry | past | little dwarfs | fairies's presents | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent present=Theme | ||||
| 4 | look | past | little dwarfs not said here | proud property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=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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