The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 23, sentence 25
The fourth place in the carriage was filled by Cerisette's mother, who had been sent by the queen to look after the three young people.
Who acts: mother, queen · What happens: fill, send, look · To what, where: fourth place, mother
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 (mother, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 place | det |
| 2 | fourth | fourth | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 place | amod |
| 3 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 filled | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 carriage | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 carriage | det |
| 6 | carriage | carriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 place | nmod |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 filled | aux:pass |
| 8 | filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 mother | case |
| 10 | Cerisette | Cerisette | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 mother | nmod:poss |
| 11 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 10 Cerisette | case |
| 12 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 filled | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 sent | punct |
| 14 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 sent | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 sent | aux |
| 16 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 sent | aux:pass |
| 17 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 mother | acl:relcl |
| 18 | by | by | ADP | _ | 20 queen | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 queen | det |
| 20 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 sent | obl |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 look | mark |
| 22 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 sent | advcl |
| 23 | after | after | ADP | _ | 27 people | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 people | det |
| 25 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 27 people | nummod |
| 26 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 people | amod |
| 27 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 look | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 filled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fill | past · passive | Cerisette's mother | the fourth place in the carriage | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | send | past · perfect · passive | the queen | Cerisette's mother | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | look | to-infinitive | the queen not said here | after the three young people | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
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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