The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 23, sentence 12
Desiree sank down fainting at the news, but soon came to herself again, and set about inventing a plan which would enable her to go to the prince without risking the doom pronounced over her by the wicked fairy.
Who acts: Desiree, plan, queen · What happens: sink down, faint, come, set, invent, enable · To what, where: queen, doom
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Desiree, plan, queen), 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 | Desiree | Desiree | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 sank | nsubj |
| 2 | sank | sink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | down | down | ADP | _ | 2 sank | compound:prt |
| 4 | fainting | faint | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 sank | advcl |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 news | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 news | det |
| 7 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fainting | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 came | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 came | cc |
| 10 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 11 came | advmod |
| 11 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 sank | conj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 herself | case |
| 13 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 11 came | obl |
| 14 | again | again | ADV | _ | 11 came | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 set | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 set | cc |
| 17 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 sank | advcl |
| 18 | about | about | SCONJ | _ | 19 inventing | mark |
| 19 | inventing | invent | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 set | advcl |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 plan | det |
| 21 | plan | plan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 pronounced | nsubj |
| 22 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 enable | nsubj |
| 23 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 enable | aux |
| 24 | enable | enable | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 plan | acl:relcl |
| 25 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 enable | obj |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 go | mark |
| 27 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 enable | xcomp |
| 28 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 prince | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 prince | det |
| 30 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 go | obl |
| 31 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 32 risking | mark |
| 32 | risking | risk | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 27 go | advcl |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 doom | det |
| 34 | doom | doom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 risking | obj |
| 35 | pronounced | pronounce | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 inventing | parataxis |
| 36 | over | over | ADP | _ | 37 her | case |
| 37 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 pronounced | obl |
| 38 | by | by | ADP | _ | 41 fairy | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 fairy | det |
| 40 | wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 fairy | amod |
| 41 | fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 pronounced | obl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 sank | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sink down | past | Desiree | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | faint | gerund | Desiree not said here | at the news | vn change_bodily_state-40.8.4 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer at news=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | come | past | Desiree not said here | queen | again | soon property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to herself=Initial_Location | ||
| 4 | set | infinitive | Desiree not said here | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 5 | invent | gerund | Desiree not said here | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | enable | would | a plan | queen | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | go | to-infinitive | queen not said here | to the prince | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to prince=Initial_Location | ||||
| 8 | risk | gerund | queen not said here | the doom | vn risk-94-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent doom=Pivot | ||||
| 9 | pronounce | past | a plan | over queen; by the wicked fairy | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=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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