The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 23, sentence 42
The carriage stopped at length in the vast hall which Becasigue had prepared for the reception of the princess.
Who acts: carriage · What happens: stop, prepare, receive · To what, where: length, vast hall, princess
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 (carriage), 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 carriage | det |
| 2 | carriage | carriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stopped | nsubj |
| 3 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 length | case |
| 5 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stopped | obl |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 hall | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 hall | det |
| 8 | vast | vast | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 hall | amod |
| 9 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stopped | obl |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 prepared | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | Becasigue | Becasigue | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 prepared | nsubj |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 prepared | aux |
| 13 | prepared | prepare | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 hall | acl:relcl |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 reception | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 reception | det |
| 16 | reception | reception | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 prepared | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 princess | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 princess | det |
| 19 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 reception | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 stopped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stop | past | the carriage | length | in the vast hall | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at length=Location | |||
| 2 | prepare | past · perfect · passive | the vast hall | for the reception of the princess | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Product for reception=Beneficiary | ||||
| 3 | receive | the princess | nom reception «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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