The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 23, sentence 3
'Well, he will be your husband in three months,' answered the queen, ordering the prince's presents to be brought in.
Who acts: Desiree, husband · What happens: be, answer, order, bring in · To what, where: husband, queen, presents
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, husband), 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 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 husband | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 8 husband | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 husband | nsubj |
| 5 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 husband | aux |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 husband | cop |
| 7 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 husband | nmod:poss |
| 8 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 answered | nsubj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 months | case |
| 10 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 months | nummod |
| 11 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 husband | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 husband | punct |
| 13 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 husband | punct |
| 14 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 queen | det |
| 16 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 answered | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 ordering | punct |
| 18 | ordering | order | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 answered | advcl |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 prince | det |
| 20 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 presents | nmod:poss |
| 21 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 20 prince | case |
| 22 | presents | present | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 ordering | obj |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 brought | mark |
| 24 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 25 brought | aux:pass |
| 25 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 ordering | advcl |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 brought | compound:prt |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | future | Desiree | your husband | month | tree rules | |||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | your husband | the queen | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent queen=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | order | gerund | your husband not said here | the prince's presents | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent present=Theme | ||||
| 4 | bring in | to-infinitive · passive | your husband not said here | vn earn-54.6 «NP V NP» |
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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