The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 22, sentence 88
He longed to form part of the embassy himself, if only in the disguise of a page; but this the king would not allow, and so the prince had to content himself with searching the kingdom for everything that was rare and beautiful to send to the princess.
Who acts: news, king, prince · What happens: long, form, not allow, have, content, search · To what, where: part, disguise, news, kingdom, princess
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 (news, king, prince), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 longed | nsubj |
| 2 | longed | long | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 form | mark |
| 4 | form | form | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 longed | xcomp |
| 5 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 form | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 embassy | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 embassy | det |
| 8 | embassy | embassy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 part | nmod |
| 9 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 8 embassy | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 disguise | punct |
| 11 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 15 disguise | mark |
| 12 | only | only | ADV | _ | 15 disguise | advmod |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 disguise | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 disguise | det |
| 15 | disguise | disguise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 form | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 page | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 page | det |
| 18 | page | page | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 disguise | nmod |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 allow | punct |
| 20 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 26 allow | cc |
| 21 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 23 king | det |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 king | det |
| 23 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 allow | nsubj |
| 24 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 allow | aux |
| 25 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 26 allow | advmod |
| 26 | allow | allow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 longed | parataxis |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 had | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 had | cc |
| 29 | so | so | ADV | _ | 32 had | advmod |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 prince | det |
| 31 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 had | nsubj |
| 32 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 longed | conj |
| 33 | to | to | PART | _ | 34 content | mark |
| 34 | content | content | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 had | xcomp |
| 35 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 34 content | obj |
| 36 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 37 searching | mark |
| 37 | searching | search | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 34 content | advcl |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 kingdom | det |
| 39 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 searching | obj |
| 40 | for | for | ADP | _ | 41 everything | case |
| 41 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 37 searching | obl |
| 42 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 44 rare | nsubj |
| 43 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 44 rare | cop |
| 44 | rare | rare | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 everything | acl:relcl |
| 45 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 beautiful | cc |
| 46 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 rare | conj |
| 47 | to | to | PART | _ | 48 send | mark |
| 48 | send | send | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 46 beautiful | xcomp |
| 49 | to | to | ADP | _ | 51 princess | case |
| 50 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 51 princess | det |
| 51 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 send | obl |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 longed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | long | past | news | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | form not said to happen | to-infinitive | news not said here | part of the embassy news | the disguise of a page | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location part=Theme | |||
| 3 | not allow | would | this king | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Causer | |||||
| 4 | have | past | the prince | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | content | to-infinitive | the prince not said here | news | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus himself=Experiencer | ||||
| 6 | search | gerund | the prince not said here | the kingdom | for everything | vn search-35.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent kingdom=Location for everything=Theme | |||
| 7 | is | past | rare property | tree rules | |||||
| 8 | be | tree rules | |||||||
| 9 | send | to-infinitive | the princess | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to princess=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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