The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 23, sentence 67
At last he spoke, and his words were addressed to his father, and not to the bride who had come so far to marry him.
Who acts: prince · What happens: speak, address, come, marry, word · To what, where: last, words, prince · 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 (prince), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 last | case |
| 2 | last | last | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 spoke | obl |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 spoke | nsubj |
| 4 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 addressed | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 addressed | cc |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 words | nmod:poss |
| 8 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 addressed | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 addressed | aux:pass |
| 10 | addressed | address | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 spoke | ccomp |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 father | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 father | nmod:poss |
| 13 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 addressed | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 come | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 come | cc |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 bride | advmod |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 bride | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 bride | det |
| 19 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 come | obl |
| 20 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 come | nsubj |
| 21 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 come | aux |
| 22 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 addressed | conj |
| 23 | so | so | ADV | _ | 24 far | advmod |
| 24 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 22 come | advmod |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 marry | mark |
| 26 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 far | advcl |
| 27 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 marry | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 spoke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | past | prince | last | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | address | past · passive | prince's words | to prince's father | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Destination | ||||
| 3 | come | past · perfect | to the bride; far property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bride=Initial_Location | |||||
| 4 | marry | to-infinitive | prince | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient | |||||
| 5 | word | prince | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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