The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 24, sentence 23

In spite of his fatigue, the prince slept badly, and directly it was light he rose, and bidding Becasigue remain where he was, as he wished to be alone, he strolled out into the forest.

Who acts: prince, room, light, bidding, Becasigue · What happens: sleep, be, rise, bid, remain, wish · To what, where: spite, light, Becasigue, forest, fatigue

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, room, light, bidding), 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	In	in	ADP	_	2 spite	case
2	spite	spite	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 slept	obl
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 fatigue	case
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 fatigue	nmod:poss
5	fatigue	fatigue	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 spite	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 spite	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 prince	det
8	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 slept	nsubj
9	slept	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	badly	badly	ADV	Degree=Pos	9 slept	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 rose	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 rose	cc
13	directly	directly	ADV	_	16 light	advmod
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 light	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 light	cop
16	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 rose	nsubj
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 rose	nsubj
18	rose	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 slept	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 remain	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 remain	cc
21	bidding	bid	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	23 remain	csubj
22	Becasigue	Becasigue	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 bidding	obj
23	remain	remain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 slept	conj
24	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	26 was	advmod
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 was	nsubj
26	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 wished	advcl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 was	punct
28	as	as	SCONJ	_	30 wished	mark
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 wished	nsubj
30	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 remain	parataxis
31	to	to	PART	_	33 alone	mark
32	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	33 alone	cop
33	alone	alone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 wished	advcl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 strolled	punct
35	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 strolled	nsubj
36	strolled	stroll	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 wished	advcl
37	out	out	ADV	_	36 strolled	advmod
38	into	into	ADP	_	40 forest	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 forest	det
40	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 strolled	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 slept	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	sleep	past	the prince		spite of Becasigue's fatigue	badly property	vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in spite=Location
2	is a	past	room	light		directly property	tree rules
3	rise	past	light				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	bid	gerund		Becasigue			tree rules
5	remain	present	bidding				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	be	past	Becasigue				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	wish	past	Becasigue				vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
8	is	to-infinitive	Becasigue not said here			alone property	tree rules
9	stroll out	past	Becasigue		the forest	out property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into forest=Destination
10	spite			Becasigue's fatigue			nom spite «feeling transitive»: of=patient
11	fatigue		Becasigue				nom fatigue «state 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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