The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 22, sentence 77
Now up to this time the princess's history has been like the history of many a princess that you have read about; but, when the period of her imprisonment was nearly over, her fortunes took another turn.
Who acts: period, fortunes, princess · What happens: be, read, take, imprison · To what, where: many princess, turn
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 (period, fortunes, princess), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 history | advmod |
| 2 | up | up | ADP | _ | 5 time | case |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 time | case |
| 4 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 time | det |
| 5 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 history | obl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 princess | det |
| 7 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 history | nmod:poss |
| 8 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 7 princess | case |
| 9 | history | history | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 time | nmod |
| 10 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 history | aux |
| 11 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 history | cop |
| 12 | like | like | ADP | _ | 14 history | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 history | det |
| 14 | history | history | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 princess | case |
| 16 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 princess | amod |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 princess | det |
| 18 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 history | nmod |
| 19 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 read | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 read | nsubj |
| 21 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 read | aux |
| 22 | read | read | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 princess | acl:relcl |
| 23 | about | about | ADV | _ | 22 read | advmod |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 35 over | punct |
| 25 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 35 over | cc |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 over | punct |
| 27 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 35 over | advmod |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 period | det |
| 29 | period | period | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 over | nsubj |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 imprisonment | case |
| 31 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 imprisonment | nmod:poss |
| 32 | imprisonment | imprisonment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 period | nmod |
| 33 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 over | cop |
| 34 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 35 over | advmod |
| 35 | over | over | ADV | _ | 14 history | conj |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 took | punct |
| 37 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 fortunes | nmod:poss |
| 38 | fortunes | fortune | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 took | nsubj |
| 39 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 over | conj |
| 40 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 41 turn | det |
| 41 | turn | turn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 took | obj |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 history | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present · perfect | now; time | like the history; of a many princess | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | read | present · perfect · passive | a many princess | about property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | ||||
| 3 | is | past | the period of princess's imprisonment | nearly, over property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | take | past | princess's fortunes | another turn | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent turn=Theme | ||||
| 5 | imprison | princess | nom imprisonment «act transitive»: poss=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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