The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 23, sentence 69
And he leaned so heavily on the envoy that Becasigue feared he was going to faint, and hastily laid him on the floor.
Who acts: prince, Becasigue · What happens: learn, fear, go, faint, lay · To what, where: envoy, prince, floor · 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, Becasigue), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 leaned | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 leaned | nsubj |
| 3 | leaned | learn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 heavily | advmod |
| 5 | heavily | heavily | ADV | _ | 3 leaned | advmod |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 envoy | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 envoy | det |
| 8 | envoy | envoy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 leaned | obl |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 feared | mark |
| 10 | Becasigue | Becasigue | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 feared | nsubj |
| 11 | feared | fear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 envoy | acl:relcl |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 going | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 going | aux |
| 14 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 feared | ccomp |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 faint | mark |
| 16 | faint | faint | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 going | xcomp |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 laid | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 laid | cc |
| 19 | hastily | hastily | ADV | _ | 20 laid | advmod |
| 20 | laid | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 leaned | conj |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 laid | obj |
| 22 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 floor | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 floor | det |
| 24 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 laid | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 leaned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | learn | past | prince | the envoy | heavily property | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | fear | past | Becasigue | the envoy not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | go | past · progressive | prince | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | faint | to-infinitive | prince not said here | vn change_bodily_state-40.8.4 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | lay | past | prince not said here | prince | the floor | hastily property | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme on floor=Destination |
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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