The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 24, sentence 27
Luckily, the prince was too weak to follow her far, and a turn of a path brought her close to the hut, where Eglantine was awaiting her.
Who acts: prince, turn, Eglantine · What happens: be, follow, bring, await · To what, where: fancy
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, turn, Eglantine), 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 | Luckily | luckily | ADV | _ | 7 weak | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Luckily | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 prince | det |
| 4 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 weak | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 weak | cop |
| 6 | too | too | ADV | _ | 7 weak | advmod |
| 7 | weak | weak | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 follow | mark |
| 9 | follow | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 weak | advcl |
| 10 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 follow | obj |
| 11 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 9 follow | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 brought | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 brought | cc |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 turn | det |
| 15 | turn | turn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 brought | nsubj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 path | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 path | det |
| 18 | path | path | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 turn | nmod |
| 19 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 weak | conj |
| 20 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 brought | obj |
| 21 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 brought | xcomp |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 hut | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 hut | det |
| 24 | hut | hut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 close | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 awaiting | punct |
| 26 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 29 awaiting | advmod |
| 27 | Eglantine | Eglantine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 awaiting | nsubj |
| 28 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 awaiting | aux |
| 29 | awaiting | await | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 24 hut | acl |
| 30 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 awaiting | obj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 weak | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the prince | luckily, weak property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | follow | to-infinitive | the prince not said here | fancy | far property | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | |||
| 3 | bring | past | a turn of a path | fancy | close property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument she=Destination | |||
| 4 | await | past · progressive | Eglantine | fancy | tree rules |
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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