The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 23, sentence 58
Weak as he was from his long illness, the prince descended the staircase, supported by the ministers, and entered the room just in time to hear his father's loud cry of astonishment and disgust at the sight of Cerisette.
Who acts: prince, Weak long illness, astonishment · What happens: be, descend, support, enter, hear, cry · To what, where: Weak long illness, staircase, room, loud cry, sight, Cerisette
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 (prince, Weak long illness, astonishment), 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 | Weak | weak | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 illness | amod |
| 2 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 8 illness | mark |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 illness | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 illness | cop |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 illness | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 illness | nmod:poss |
| 7 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 illness | amod |
| 8 | illness | illness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 descended | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 illness | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 prince | det |
| 11 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 descended | nsubj |
| 12 | descended | descend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 staircase | det |
| 14 | staircase | staircase | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 descended | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 supported | punct |
| 16 | supported | support | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 staircase | acl |
| 17 | by | by | ADP | _ | 19 ministers | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 ministers | det |
| 19 | ministers | minister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 supported | obl:agent |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 entered | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 entered | cc |
| 22 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 descended | conj |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 room | det |
| 24 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 entered | obj |
| 25 | just | just | ADV | _ | 27 time | advmod |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 time | case |
| 27 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 entered | advcl |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 hear | mark |
| 29 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 time | acl |
| 30 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 father | nmod:poss |
| 31 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 cry | nmod:poss |
| 32 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 31 father | case |
| 33 | loud | loud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 cry | amod |
| 34 | cry | cry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 hear | obj |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 astonishment | case |
| 36 | astonishment | astonishment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 cry | nmod |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 disgust | cc |
| 38 | disgust | disgust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 cry | conj |
| 39 | at | at | ADP | _ | 41 sight | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 sight | det |
| 41 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 hear | obl |
| 42 | of | of | ADP | _ | 43 Cerisette | case |
| 43 | Cerisette | Cerisette | PROPN | Number=Sing | 41 sight | nmod |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 descended | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | prince | prince's Weak long illness | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | descend | past | prince's Weak long illness | the staircase | vn meander-47.7-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location staircase=Theme | ||||
| 3 | support | participle | the staircase not said here | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | enter | past | prince's Weak long illness not said here | the room | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme room=Destination | ||||
| 5 | hear | to-infinitive | prince's Weak long illness not said here | prince's father's loud cry of astonishment and disgust | the sight of Cerisette | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer cry=Stimulus | |||
| 6 | cry | astonishment | nom cry «communication intransitive»: of=agent | ||||||
| 7 | sight | Cerisette | nom sight «cognition 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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