The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 23, sentence 81
He wept bitter tears at the news, for he loved the prince dearly; but he felt that perhaps the young man had done wisely, and he trusted to time and Becasigue's influence to bring the wanderer home.
Who acts: king, young man · What happens: weep, love, feel, do, trust, bring · To what, where: bitter tears, news, prince, wanderer
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 (king, young man), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 wept | nsubj |
| 2 | wept | weep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | bitter | bitter | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 tears | amod |
| 4 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 wept | obj |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 news | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 news | det |
| 7 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 wept | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 loved | punct |
| 9 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 11 loved | mark |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 loved | nsubj |
| 11 | loved | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 wept | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 prince | det |
| 13 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 loved | obj |
| 14 | dearly | dearly | ADV | _ | 11 loved | advmod |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 felt | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 felt | cc |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 felt | nsubj |
| 18 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 wept | parataxis |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 25 done | mark |
| 20 | perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 25 done | advmod |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 man | det |
| 22 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 man | amod |
| 23 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 done | nsubj |
| 24 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 done | aux |
| 25 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 18 felt | advcl |
| 26 | wisely | wisely | ADV | _ | 25 done | advmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 trusted | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 trusted | cc |
| 29 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 trusted | nsubj |
| 30 | trusted | trust | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 felt | conj |
| 31 | to | to | ADP | _ | 32 time | case |
| 32 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 trusted | obl |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 influence | cc |
| 34 | Becasigue | Becasigue | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 influence | nmod:poss |
| 35 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 34 Becasigue | case |
| 36 | influence | influence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 trusted | conj |
| 37 | to | to | PART | _ | 38 bring | mark |
| 38 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 36 influence | acl |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 wanderer | det |
| 40 | wanderer | wanderer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 bring | obj |
| 41 | home | home | ADV | _ | 38 bring | advmod |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 wept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | weep | past | king | bitter tears | the news | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent tear=Theme | |||
| 2 | love | past | king | the prince | dearly property | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer prince=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | feel | past | king | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | do | past · perfect | the young man | perhaps, wisely property | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | trust | past | king | time | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | bring | to-infinitive | king not said here | the wanderer | home property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent wanderer=Theme |
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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