The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 24, sentence 67
She struggled to her feet, but the prince would not hear of her walking, and thinking the old woman might be able to dress her wound better than he could, he took her in his arms to carry her back to the hut.
Who acts: Eglantine, prince, old woman, doe · What happens: struggle, not hear, think, be, dress, take · To what, where: wound, Eglantine, arms · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Eglantine, prince, old woman, 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 struggled | nsubj |
| 2 | struggled | struggle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 feet | case |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 feet | nmod:poss |
| 5 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 struggled | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 hear | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 hear | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 prince | det |
| 9 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 hear | nsubj |
| 10 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 hear | aux |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 hear | advmod |
| 12 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 struggled | conj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 walking | case |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 walking | nmod:poss |
| 15 | walking | walking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 hear | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 thinking | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 thinking | cc |
| 18 | thinking | think | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 struggled | advcl |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 woman | det |
| 20 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 woman | amod |
| 21 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 able | nsubj |
| 22 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 able | aux |
| 23 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 24 able | cop |
| 24 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 thinking | ccomp |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 dress | mark |
| 26 | dress | dress | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 able | xcomp |
| 27 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 wound | nmod:poss |
| 28 | wound | wound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 dress | obj |
| 29 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 26 dress | xcomp |
| 30 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 32 could | mark |
| 31 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 could | nsubj |
| 32 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 better | advcl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 took | punct |
| 34 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 took | nsubj |
| 35 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 struggled | conj |
| 36 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 took | obj |
| 37 | in | in | ADP | _ | 39 arms | case |
| 38 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 arms | nmod:poss |
| 39 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 took | obl |
| 40 | to | to | PART | _ | 41 carry | mark |
| 41 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 35 took | advcl |
| 42 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 carry | obj |
| 43 | back | back | ADV | _ | 41 carry | advmod |
| 44 | to | to | ADP | _ | 46 hut | case |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 hut | det |
| 46 | hut | hut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 back | obl |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 struggled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | struggle | past | Eglantine | to Eglantine's feet | vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | not hear | would | the prince | of Eglantine's walking | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of walking=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | think speech: other | gerund | Eglantine not said here | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is | might | the old woman | able property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | dress | to-infinitive | the old woman not said here | Eglantine's wound | good property | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wound=Patient | |||
| 6 | take | past | doe | Eglantine | doe's arms | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent she=Value in arm=Location | |||
| 7 | carry | to-infinitive | doe not said here | Eglantine | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | ||||
| 8 | walk | Eglantine | nom walking «act intransitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 9 | wound | Eglantine | nom wound «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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