The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 22, sentence 83
Without losing a moment the king went to visit his son, and no sooner had he entered the room than the young man flung himself at his father's feet.
Who acts: Tulip, young man · What happens: lose, go, visit, have, enter, fling · To what, where: king, son, room, Tulip, feet
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 (Tulip, young man), 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 | Without | without | SCONJ | _ | 2 losing | mark |
| 2 | losing | lose | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 went | advcl |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 moment | det |
| 4 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 losing | obj |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 king | det |
| 6 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 losing | obj |
| 7 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 visit | mark |
| 9 | visit | visit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 went | xcomp |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 son | nmod:poss |
| 11 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 visit | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 had | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 had | cc |
| 14 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 15 sooner | det |
| 15 | sooner | soon | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 16 had | advmod |
| 16 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 went | conj |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 entered | nsubj |
| 18 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 had | ccomp |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 room | det |
| 20 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 entered | obj |
| 21 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 25 flung | mark |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 man | det |
| 23 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 man | amod |
| 24 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 flung | nsubj |
| 25 | flung | fling | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 entered | advcl |
| 26 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 25 flung | obj |
| 27 | at | at | ADP | _ | 31 feet | case |
| 28 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 father | nmod:poss |
| 29 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 feet | nmod:poss |
| 30 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 29 father | case |
| 31 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 flung | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lose | gerund | the king | moment | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | go | past | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 3 | visit | to-infinitive | Tulip's son | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Co-Agent | |||||
| 4 | have | past | soon property | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | enter | past | Tulip | the room | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme room=Destination | ||||
| 6 | fling | past | the young man | Tulip | Tulip's father's feet | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent himself=Theme at foot=Destination |
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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