The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 23, sentence 49
The ministers looked at each other, and made no reply; till at length the chamberlain, who was the bolder of the two, observed:
Who acts: ministers, chamberlain · What happens: look, make, be, observe · To what, where: reply
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 (ministers, chamberlain), 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 ministers | det |
| 2 | ministers | minister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 looked | nsubj |
| 3 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 each | case |
| 5 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 3 looked | obl |
| 6 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 each | fixed |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 made | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 made | cc |
| 9 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 looked | conj |
| 10 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 11 reply | det |
| 11 | reply | reply | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 made | obj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 length | punct |
| 13 | till | till | ADP | _ | 15 length | case |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 length | case |
| 15 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 made | obl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 chamberlain | det |
| 17 | chamberlain | chamberlain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 length | appos |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 bolder | punct |
| 19 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 bolder | nsubj |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 bolder | cop |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 bolder | det |
| 22 | bolder | bold | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 17 chamberlain | acl:relcl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 two | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 two | det |
| 25 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 27 observed | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 two | punct |
| 27 | observed | observe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 bolder | parataxis |
| 28 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 3 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | the ministers | at each | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at each=Theme | ||||
| 2 | make | past | the ministers not said here | no reply | till length | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset reply=Product | |||
| 3 | is | past | the chamberlain | bold property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | observe | participle | of the two | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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