The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 23, sentence 78
At length he slowly began to gain strength, but his sorrow was still so great that he could not bear the sight of a strange face, and shuddered at the notion of taking his proper part in the court ceremonies.
Who acts: prince, sorrow, notion · What happens: begin, gain, be, not bear, shudder, take · To what, where: length, strength, sight, proper part, court ceremonies, strange face
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, sorrow, notion), 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 length | case |
| 2 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 began | obl |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 began | nsubj |
| 4 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 5 began | advmod |
| 5 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 gain | mark |
| 7 | gain | gain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 began | xcomp |
| 8 | strength | strength | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 gain | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 great | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 great | cc |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 sorrow | nmod:poss |
| 12 | sorrow | sorrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 great | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 great | cop |
| 14 | still | still | ADV | _ | 16 great | advmod |
| 15 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 great | advmod |
| 16 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 began | obl |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 bear | mark |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 bear | nsubj |
| 19 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 bear | aux |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 bear | advmod |
| 21 | bear | bear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 great | advcl |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 sight | det |
| 23 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 bear | obj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 face | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 face | det |
| 26 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 face | amod |
| 27 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 sight | nmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 shuddered | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 shuddered | cc |
| 30 | shuddered | shudder | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 began | conj |
| 31 | at | at | ADP | _ | 33 notion | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 notion | det |
| 33 | notion | notion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 shuddered | obl |
| 34 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 35 taking | mark |
| 35 | taking | take | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 33 notion | acl |
| 36 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 part | nmod:poss |
| 37 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 part | amod |
| 38 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 taking | obj |
| 39 | in | in | ADP | _ | 42 ceremonies | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 ceremonies | det |
| 41 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 ceremonies | compound |
| 42 | ceremonies | ceremony | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 taking | obl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | prince | length | slowly property | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | gain | to-infinitive | prince not said here | strength | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent strength=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | past | prince's sorrow | still | great property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | not bear | could | prince | the sight of a strange face | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sight=Patient | ||||
| 5 | shudder | participle | prince not said here | at the notion | vn body_internal_states-40.6 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer at notion=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | take | gerund | the notion not said here | prince's proper part | the court ceremonies | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent part=Value in ceremony=Location | |||
| 7 | sorrow | prince | nom sorrow «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 8 | sight | a strange face | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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