The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 23, sentence 59
'There was been treachery at work,' he exclaimed, while the prince leant, dumb with horror, against the doorpost.
Who acts: treachery · What happens: be, exclaim · To what, where: treachery, work, prince leant
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 (treachery), 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 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 treachery | punct |
| 2 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 4 been | expl |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 been | aux:pass |
| 4 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 treachery | cop |
| 5 | treachery | treachery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 exclaimed | nsubj |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 work | case |
| 7 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 treachery | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 treachery | punct |
| 9 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 treachery | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 exclaimed | nsubj |
| 11 | exclaimed | exclaim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 leant | punct |
| 13 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 16 leant | mark |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 leant | det |
| 15 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 leant | compound |
| 16 | leant | leant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 exclaimed | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 dumb | punct |
| 18 | dumb | dumb | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 leant | amod |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 horror | case |
| 20 | horror | horror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 dumb | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 doorpost | punct |
| 22 | against | against | ADP | _ | 24 doorpost | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 doorpost | det |
| 24 | doorpost | doorpost | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 exclaimed | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 exclaimed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | participle | treachery | work | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | exclaim speech: express | past | treachery | the prince leant | against the doorpost | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent leant=Topic |
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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