The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 23, sentence 80

It was some weeks before he had regained his health sufficiently to carry out his design; but finally, one beautiful starlight night, the two friends stole away, and when the king woke next morning he found a letter lying by his bed, saying that his son had gone, he knew not whither.

Who acts: rest, prince, two friends, king, letter, son · What happens: be, regain, carry out, steal away, wake, find · To what, where: weeks, health, design, letter · 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 (rest, prince, two friends, king), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 weeks	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 weeks	cop
3	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	4 weeks	det
4	weeks	week	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	before	before	SCONJ	_	8 regained	mark
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 regained	nsubj
7	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 regained	aux
8	regained	regain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 weeks	advcl
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 health	nmod:poss
10	health	health	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 regained	obj
11	sufficiently	sufficiently	ADV	_	13 carry	advmod
12	to	to	PART	_	13 carry	mark
13	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 regained	advcl
14	out	out	ADP	_	13 carry	compound:prt
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 design	nmod:poss
16	design	design	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 carry	obj
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 night	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 night	cc
19	finally	finally	ADV	_	24 night	advmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 finally	punct
21	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	24 night	nummod
22	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 night	amod
23	starlight	starlight	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 night	compound
24	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 weeks	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 stole	punct
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 friends	det
27	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	28 friends	nummod
28	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 stole	nsubj
29	stole	steal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 night	advcl
30	away	away	ADV	_	29 stole	advmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 woke	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 woke	cc
33	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	36 woke	advmod
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 king	det
35	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 woke	nsubj
36	woke	wake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 stole	parataxis
37	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 morning	amod
38	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 found	obl:unmarked
39	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 found	nsubj
40	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 woke	conj
41	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	42 letter	det
42	letter	letter	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 found	obj
43	lying	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	42 letter	acl
44	by	by	ADP	_	46 bed	case
45	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	46 bed	nmod:poss
46	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 lying	obl
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 saying	punct
48	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	40 found	advcl
49	that	that	SCONJ	_	53 gone	mark
50	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	51 son	nmod:poss
51	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 gone	nsubj
52	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	53 gone	aux
53	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	56 knew	advcl
54	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 gone	punct
55	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	56 knew	nsubj
56	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	48 saying	ccomp
57	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	56 knew	advmod
58	whither	whither	ADV	PronType=Int	56 knew	advmod
59	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 weeks	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	rest	some weeks but one beautiful starlight night			tree rules
2	regain	past · perfect	prince	prince's health			vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent health=Theme
3	carry out	to-infinitive	prince not said here	prince's design		sufficiently property	vn act-114 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent design=Eventuality
4	steal away	past	the two friends			away property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	wake	past	the king				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
6	find	past	king	a letter	morning		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent letter=Topic
7	lie	gerund	a letter not said here			by prince's bed	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by bed=Location
8	say speech: assert	gerund	king not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
9	go	past · perfect	prince's son				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
10	not know	past	king			whither property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
11	design		prince				nom design «act 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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