The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 24, sentence 59
When the white doe entered the forest next morning, she had not made up her mind whether she would go and meet the prince, or whether she would shun him, and hide in thickets of which he knew nothing.
Who acts: white doe, Eglantine, doe · What happens: enter, not make up, go, meet, shun, hide · To what, where: forest, mind, prince, doe, thickets, nothing
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 (white doe, Eglantine, doe), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 entered | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 doe | det |
| 3 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 doe | amod |
| 4 | doe | doe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 entered | nsubj |
| 5 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 made | advcl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 forest | det |
| 7 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 entered | obj |
| 8 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 morning | amod |
| 9 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 entered | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 entered | punct |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 made | nsubj |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 made | aux |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 made | advmod |
| 14 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 15 | up | up | ADP | _ | 14 made | compound:prt |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 mind | nmod:poss |
| 17 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 made | obj |
| 18 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 21 go | mark |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 go | nsubj |
| 20 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 go | aux |
| 21 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 made | advcl |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 meet | cc |
| 23 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 go | conj |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 prince | det |
| 25 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 meet | obj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 shun | punct |
| 27 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 31 shun | cc |
| 28 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 31 shun | mark |
| 29 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 shun | nsubj |
| 30 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 shun | aux |
| 31 | shun | shun | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 go | conj |
| 32 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 shun | obj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 hide | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 hide | cc |
| 35 | hide | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 made | conj |
| 36 | in | in | ADP | _ | 37 thickets | case |
| 37 | thickets | thicket | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 hide | obl |
| 38 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 which | case |
| 39 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 41 knew | obl |
| 40 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 knew | nsubj |
| 41 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 thickets | acl:relcl |
| 42 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 41 knew | obj |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enter | past | the white doe | the forest | morning | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme forest=Destination | |||
| 2 | not make up | past · perfect | Eglantine | Eglantine's mind | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mind=Pivot | ||||
| 3 | go | would | Eglantine | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | meet | infinitive | Eglantine not said here | the prince | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prince=Co-Agent | ||||
| 5 | shun | would | Eglantine | doe | vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent he=Location | ||||
| 6 | hide | present | Eglantine not said here | thickets | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in thicket=Location | ||||
| 7 | know | past | doe | nothing | of thickets | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus | |||
| 8 | mind | Eglantine | nom mind «cognition 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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