The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 23, sentence 5
The ambassador, finding that there was no hope of his being allowed to see the princess, took his leave, and returned to his own court; but here a new difficulty appeared.
Who acts: ambassador, hope, new difficulty · What happens: find, be, allow, see, take, return · To what, where: hope, princess, leave · 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 (ambassador, hope, new difficulty), 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 ambassador | det |
| 2 | ambassador | ambassador | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 took | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 finding | punct |
| 4 | finding | find | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 ambassador | acl |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 was | mark |
| 6 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 7 was | expl |
| 7 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 finding | ccomp |
| 8 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 9 hope | det |
| 9 | hope | hope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 was | nsubj |
| 10 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 13 allowed | mark |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 allowed | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 allowed | aux:pass |
| 13 | allowed | allow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 hope | acl:relcl |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 see | mark |
| 15 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 allowed | xcomp |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 princess | det |
| 17 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 see | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 ambassador | punct |
| 19 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 leave | nmod:poss |
| 21 | leave | leave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 took | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 returned | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 returned | cc |
| 24 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 took | conj |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 court | case |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 court | nmod:poss |
| 27 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 court | amod |
| 28 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 returned | obl |
| 29 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 35 appeared | punct |
| 30 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 31 here | cc |
| 31 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 35 appeared | advmod |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 difficulty | det |
| 33 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 difficulty | amod |
| 34 | difficulty | difficulty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 appeared | nsubj |
| 35 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 took | conj |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | gerund | the ambassador not said here | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | be | past | no hope | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | allow | gerund · passive | no hope not said here | hope | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | see not said to happen | to-infinitive | hope not said here | the princess | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer princess=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | take | past | the ambassador | hope's leave | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leave=Theme | ||||
| 6 | return | past | the ambassador not said here | to hope's own court result | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to court=Result | ||||
| 7 | appear | past | a new difficulty | here | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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