The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 23, sentence 4
The princess was very pleased with them, and admired them greatly, but the queen noticed that all the while her eyes constantly strayed from the softest silks and most brilliant jewels to the portrait of the prince.
Who acts: princess, queen, eyes · What happens: be, admire, notice, stray, portray · To what, where: presents, softest silks, prince · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (princess, queen, eyes), 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 | 2 princess | det |
| 2 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 pleased | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 pleased | cop |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 pleased | advmod |
| 5 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 them | case |
| 7 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 pleased | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 admired | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 admired | cc |
| 10 | admired | admire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 pleased | conj |
| 11 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 admired | obj |
| 12 | greatly | greatly | ADV | _ | 10 admired | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 noticed | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 noticed | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 queen | det |
| 16 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 noticed | nsubj |
| 17 | noticed | notice | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 pleased | conj |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 25 strayed | mark |
| 19 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 25 strayed | det:predet |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 strayed | det |
| 21 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 25 strayed | mark |
| 22 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 23 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 strayed | nsubj |
| 24 | constantly | constantly | ADV | _ | 25 strayed | advmod |
| 25 | strayed | stray | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 noticed | ccomp |
| 26 | from | from | ADP | _ | 29 silks | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 silks | det |
| 28 | softest | soft | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 29 silks | amod |
| 29 | silks | silk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 strayed | obl |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 jewels | cc |
| 31 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 32 brilliant | advmod |
| 32 | brilliant | brilliant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 jewels | amod |
| 33 | jewels | jewel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 silks | conj |
| 34 | to | to | ADP | _ | 36 portrait | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 portrait | det |
| 36 | portrait | portrait | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 strayed | obl |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 prince | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 prince | det |
| 39 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 portrait | nmod |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 pleased | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the princess | with presents = present; pleased property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | admire | past | the princess not said here | presents = present | greatly property | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | notice | past | the queen | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | stray | past | queen's eyes | the softest silks and brilliant jewels | to the portrait of the prince; constantly property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to portrait=Destination | |||
| 5 | portray | the prince | nom portrait «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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