The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 22, sentence 79
They all loved her dearly, but the fairy Tulip loved her most of all; and as the princess's fifteenth birthday drew near, the fairy began to tremble lest something terrible should happen--some accident which had not been foreseen. '
Who acts: fairies, fairy, fifteenth birthday, something, accident · What happens: love, draw, begin, tremble, happen, not be · To what, where: dearly, most, accident
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, fairy, fifteenth birthday, something), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 loved | nsubj |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 loved | advmod |
| 3 | loved | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 dearly | nmod:poss |
| 5 | dearly | dearly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 loved | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 loved | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 loved | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 fairy | det |
| 9 | fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 loved | nsubj |
| 10 | Tulip | Tulip | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 fairy | appos |
| 11 | loved | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 loved | parataxis |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 most | nmod:poss |
| 13 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 11 loved | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 all | case |
| 15 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 most | nmod |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 drew | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 drew | cc |
| 18 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 24 drew | mark |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 princess | det |
| 20 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 birthday | nmod:poss |
| 21 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 20 princess | case |
| 22 | fifteenth | fifteenth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 birthday | amod |
| 23 | birthday | birthday | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 drew | nsubj |
| 24 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 loved | parataxis |
| 25 | near | near | ADV | _ | 24 drew | advmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 began | punct |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 fairy | det |
| 28 | fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 began | nsubj |
| 29 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 drew | conj |
| 30 | to | to | PART | _ | 31 tremble | mark |
| 31 | tremble | tremble | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 began | xcomp |
| 32 | lest | lest | SCONJ | _ | 36 happen | mark |
| 33 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 36 happen | nsubj |
| 34 | terrible | terrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 something | amod |
| 35 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 36 happen | aux |
| 36 | happen | happen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 tremble | advcl |
| 37 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 39 accident | punct |
| 38 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 39 accident | det |
| 39 | accident | accident | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 happen | obl |
| 40 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 44 foreseen | nsubj |
| 41 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 44 foreseen | aux |
| 42 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 44 foreseen | advmod |
| 43 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 44 foreseen | cop |
| 44 | foreseen | foreseen | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 accident | acl:relcl |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 loved | punct |
| 46 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 loved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | love | past | fairies = fairy | princess's dearly | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dearly=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | love | past | the fairy | princess's most of all | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer most=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | draw | past | the princess's fifteenth birthday | near property | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | begin | past | the fairy | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | tremble | to-infinitive | the fairy not said here | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | happen | should | something | some accident | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 7 | not is | past · perfect | some accident | foreseen 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/22/79/