The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 22, sentence 75
At the end of half an hour they had made up their minds what to do, and at the command of the fairies, a beautiful palace sprang up, close to that of the king and queen, but different from every palace in the world in having no windows, and only a door right under the earth.
Who acts: fairies, beautiful palace · What happens: make up, do, spring up, have, mind, command · To what, where: minds, end, command, windows, earth, fairies · Speech: someone speaks here
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, beautiful palace), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 end | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 end | det |
| 3 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 made | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 hour | case |
| 5 | half | half | DET | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind | 7 hour | det:predet |
| 6 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 hour | det |
| 7 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 end | nmod |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 made | nsubj |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 made | aux |
| 10 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 11 | up | up | ADP | _ | 10 made | compound:prt |
| 12 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 minds | nmod:poss |
| 13 | minds | mind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 made | obl |
| 14 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 16 do | obj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 do | mark |
| 16 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 minds | acl:relcl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 sprang | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 sprang | cc |
| 19 | at | at | ADP | _ | 21 command | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 command | det |
| 21 | command | command | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 sprang | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 fairies | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 fairies | det |
| 24 | fairies | fairy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 command | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 palace | punct |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 palace | det |
| 27 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 palace | amod |
| 28 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 sprang | nsubj |
| 29 | sprang | spring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 made | conj |
| 30 | up | up | ADP | _ | 29 sprang | compound:prt |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 close | punct |
| 32 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 sprang | xcomp |
| 33 | to | to | ADP | _ | 34 that | case |
| 34 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 32 close | obl |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 king | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 king | det |
| 37 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 that | nmod |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 queen | cc |
| 39 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 king | conj |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 different | punct |
| 41 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 42 different | cc |
| 42 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 sprang | parataxis |
| 43 | from | from | ADP | _ | 45 palace | case |
| 44 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 45 palace | det |
| 45 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 different | obl |
| 46 | in | in | ADP | _ | 48 world | case |
| 47 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 48 world | det |
| 48 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 palace | nmod |
| 49 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 50 having | mark |
| 50 | having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 42 different | advcl |
| 51 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 52 windows | det |
| 52 | windows | window | NOUN | Number=Plur | 50 having | obj |
| 53 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 57 door | punct |
| 54 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 57 door | cc |
| 55 | only | only | ADV | _ | 57 door | advmod |
| 56 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 57 door | det |
| 57 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 having | obl |
| 58 | right | right | ADV | _ | 61 earth | advmod |
| 59 | under | under | ADP | _ | 61 earth | case |
| 60 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 61 earth | det |
| 61 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 having | obl |
| 62 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make up | past · perfect | fairies = fairy | fairies's minds | at the end of half hour | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | do | to-infinitive | fairies = fairy not said here | fairies's minds | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | spring up | past | a beautiful palace | the command of the fairies | close property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at command=Location | |||
| 4 | have | gerund | a beautiful palace not said here | no windows | the earth | a door obl | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent window=Patient | ||
| 5 | mind | fairies = fairy | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 6 | command | the fairies | nom command «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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