The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 24, sentence 48
For a long time they remained thus, but when Desiree saw by the way that the light struck the trees, that he sun must be near its setting, she was filled with alarm lest the darkness should fall, and the prince should behold her in her human shape.
Who acts: prince, Desiree, light, darkness · What happens: remain, see, strike, be, fill, fall · To what, where: way, setting, Desiree, darkness, human shape
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, Desiree, light, darkness), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 4 time | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 time | det |
| 3 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 time | amod |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 remained | obl |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 remained | nsubj |
| 6 | remained | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 6 remained | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 saw | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 saw | cc |
| 10 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 saw | advmod |
| 11 | Desiree | Desiree | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 saw | nsubj |
| 12 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 remained | conj |
| 13 | by | by | ADP | _ | 15 way | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 way | det |
| 15 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 saw | obl |
| 16 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 struck | obj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 light | det |
| 18 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 struck | nsubj |
| 19 | struck | strike | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 way | acl:relcl |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 trees | det |
| 21 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 struck | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 setting | punct |
| 23 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 30 setting | mark |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 setting | nsubj |
| 25 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 he | flat |
| 26 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 setting | aux |
| 27 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 30 setting | cop |
| 28 | near | near | ADP | _ | 30 setting | case |
| 29 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 setting | nmod:poss |
| 30 | setting | setting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 saw | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 filled | punct |
| 32 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 filled | nsubj |
| 33 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 filled | aux:pass |
| 34 | filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 30 setting | acl |
| 35 | with | with | ADP | _ | 36 alarm | case |
| 36 | alarm | alarm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 filled | obl |
| 37 | lest | lest | SCONJ | _ | 41 fall | mark |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 darkness | det |
| 39 | darkness | darkness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 fall | nsubj |
| 40 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 41 fall | aux |
| 41 | fall | fall | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 filled | advcl |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 behold | punct |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 47 behold | cc |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 prince | det |
| 45 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 behold | nsubj |
| 46 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 47 behold | aux |
| 47 | behold | behold | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 remained | conj |
| 48 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 47 behold | obj |
| 49 | in | in | ADP | _ | 52 shape | case |
| 50 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 52 shape | nmod:poss |
| 51 | human | human | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 52 shape | amod |
| 52 | shape | shape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 behold | obl |
| 53 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 remained | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remain | past | prince | time | thus property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | see | past | Desiree | by the way | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | strike | past | the light | the way | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP ADJP»: agent=Agent that=Patient tree=Result | ||||
| 4 | is | must | light | tree's setting | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | fill | past · passive | Desiree | with alarm | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with alarm=Instrument | ||||
| 6 | fall | should | the darkness | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 7 | behold | should | the prince | darkness | darkness's human shape | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus |
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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