The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 23, sentence 62
The king did not move or answer her; so the prince, leaning on the arm of Becasigue, approached a little closer to the false princess, hoping against hope that his eyes had deceived him.
Who acts: king, prince, eyes · What happens: not move, answer, lean, approach, hope, deceive · To what, where: princess, arm, hope
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 (king, prince, eyes), 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 king | det |
| 2 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 move | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 move | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 move | advmod |
| 5 | move | move | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 7 answer | cc |
| 7 | answer | answer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 move | conj |
| 8 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 answer | obj |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 approached | punct |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 21 approached | advmod |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 prince | det |
| 12 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 approached | nsubj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 leaning | punct |
| 14 | leaning | lean | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 prince | acl |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 arm | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 arm | det |
| 17 | arm | arm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 leaning | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 Becasigue | case |
| 19 | Becasigue | Becasigue | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 arm | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 prince | punct |
| 21 | approached | approach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 move | parataxis |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 little | det |
| 23 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 closer | obl:unmarked |
| 24 | closer | close | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 21 approached | xcomp |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 princess | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 princess | det |
| 27 | false | false | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 princess | amod |
| 28 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 closer | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 hoping | punct |
| 30 | hoping | hope | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 approached | advcl |
| 31 | against | against | ADP | _ | 32 hope | case |
| 32 | hope | hope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 hoping | obl |
| 33 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 37 deceived | obj |
| 34 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 35 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 deceived | nsubj |
| 36 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 deceived | aux |
| 37 | deceived | deceive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 32 hope | acl:relcl |
| 38 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 deceived | obj |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 move | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not move | past · do-support | the king | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | infinitive | the king not said here | princess | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent she=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | lean | gerund | the prince not said here | the arm of Becasigue | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on arm=Location | ||||
| 4 | approach | past | the prince | close property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | hope | gerund | the prince not said here | against hope | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot | ||||
| 6 | deceive | past · perfect | king's eyes | hope | tree rules |
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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