The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 22, sentence 81
And so it was done; and as the fairy had prophesied, all the young princes fell in love with the picture; but the last one to whom it was shown could think of nothing else, and refused to let it be removed from his chamber, where he spent whole days gazing at it.
Who acts: young princes, last one, Tulip · What happens: do, prophesy, fall, show, think, refuse · To what, where: beauty, fairy, love, chamber
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 (young princes, last one, Tulip), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 done | cc |
| 2 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 done | advmod |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 done | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 done | aux:pass |
| 5 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 prophesied | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 prophesied | cc |
| 8 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 12 prophesied | mark |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 fairy | det |
| 10 | fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 prophesied | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 prophesied | aux |
| 12 | prophesied | prophesy | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 done | parataxis |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 fell | punct |
| 14 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 princes | det:predet |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 princes | det |
| 16 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 princes | amod |
| 17 | princes | prince | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 fell | nsubj |
| 18 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 prophesied | conj |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 love | case |
| 20 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 fell | obl |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 picture | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 picture | det |
| 23 | picture | picture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 fell | obl |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 35 think | punct |
| 25 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 35 think | cc |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 one | det |
| 27 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 one | amod |
| 28 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 think | nsubj |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 33 shown | mark |
| 30 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 33 shown | obj |
| 31 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 shown | nsubj:pass |
| 32 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 shown | aux:pass |
| 33 | shown | show | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 one | acl |
| 34 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 35 think | aux |
| 35 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 done | conj |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 nothing | case |
| 37 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 35 think | obl |
| 38 | else | else | ADV | _ | 37 nothing | advmod |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 refused | punct |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 refused | cc |
| 41 | refused | refuse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 think | conj |
| 42 | to | to | PART | _ | 43 let | mark |
| 43 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 41 refused | xcomp |
| 44 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 46 removed | nsubj:pass |
| 45 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 46 removed | aux:pass |
| 46 | removed | remove | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 43 let | xcomp |
| 47 | from | from | ADP | _ | 49 chamber | case |
| 48 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 49 chamber | nmod:poss |
| 49 | chamber | chamber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 removed | obl |
| 50 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 53 spent | punct |
| 51 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 53 spent | advmod |
| 52 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 53 spent | nsubj |
| 53 | spent | spend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 49 chamber | acl:relcl |
| 54 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 55 days | amod |
| 55 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 53 spent | obj |
| 56 | gazing | gaze | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 53 spent | advcl |
| 57 | at | at | ADP | _ | 58 it | case |
| 58 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 56 gazing | obl |
| 59 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 done | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past · passive | beauty | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | prophesy | past · perfect · passive | the fairy | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 3 | fall | past | all young princes | love | with the picture | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in love=Location | |||
| 4 | show | past · passive | the last one not said here | beauty | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient whom=Topic | ||||
| 5 | think speech: other | could | the last one | of nothing | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | refuse | past | the last one not said here | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 7 | not let | to-infinitive | the last one not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 8 | remove | infinitive · passive | beauty | Tulip's chamber | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme from chamber=Source | ||||
| 9 | spend | past | Tulip | day | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 10 | gaze | gerund | Tulip not said here | at beauty | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at it=Theme |
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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