The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 23, sentence 63
But the longer he looked the more he agreed with his father that there was treason somewhere, for in no single respect did the portrait resemble the woman before him.
Who acts: prince, portrait · What happens: look, agree, be, resemble · To what, where: woman, single respect
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, portrait), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 looked | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 longer | det |
| 3 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 5 looked | advmod |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 looked | nsubj |
| 5 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 agreed | advcl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 more | det |
| 7 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 5 looked | advmod |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 agreed | nsubj |
| 9 | agreed | agree | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 father | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 father | nmod:poss |
| 12 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 somewhere | obl |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 was | mark |
| 14 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 15 was | expl |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 somewhere | cop |
| 16 | treason | treason | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 was | nsubj |
| 17 | somewhere | somewhere | ADV | PronType=Ind | 9 agreed | advmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 resemble | punct |
| 19 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 27 resemble | mark |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 respect | case |
| 21 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 23 respect | det |
| 22 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 respect | amod |
| 23 | respect | respect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 resemble | obl |
| 24 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 resemble | aux |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 portrait | det |
| 26 | portrait | portrait | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 resemble | nsubj |
| 27 | resemble | resemble | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 agreed | conj |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 woman | det |
| 29 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 resemble | obj |
| 30 | before | before | ADP | _ | 31 him | case |
| 31 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 resemble | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 agreed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | prince | long property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | agree speech: agree | past | prince | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | past | with prince's father; somewhere property | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | resemble | past · do-support | the portrait | the woman | no single respect | before prince | 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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