The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 22, sentence 89
Indeed, he arrived, just as the embassy was starting, with his portrait, which had been painted in secret by the court painter.
Who acts: news, embassy, court painter · What happens: arrive, start, paint, portray · To what, where: portrait, secret
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, embassy, court painter), 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 | Indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 4 arrived | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Indeed | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 arrived | nsubj |
| 4 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 starting | punct |
| 6 | just | just | ADV | _ | 11 starting | advmod |
| 7 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 11 starting | mark |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 embassy | det |
| 9 | embassy | embassy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 starting | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 starting | aux |
| 11 | starting | start | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 arrived | advcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 portrait | punct |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 portrait | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 portrait | nmod:poss |
| 15 | portrait | portrait | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 starting | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 painted | punct |
| 17 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 painted | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 painted | aux |
| 19 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 20 painted | aux:pass |
| 20 | painted | paint | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 portrait | acl |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 secret | case |
| 22 | secret | secret | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 painted | obl |
| 23 | by | by | ADP | _ | 26 painter | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 painter | det |
| 25 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 painter | compound |
| 26 | painter | painter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 painted | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 arrived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arrive | past | news | indeed property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | start | past · progressive | the embassy | with news's portrait | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with portrait=Subeventuality | ||||
| 3 | paint | past · perfect · passive | the court painter | news's portrait | secret | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent subject=Theme in secret=Destination | |||
| 4 | portray | news | nom portrait «communication 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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