The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 24, sentence 99

A single glance was sufficient to show the prince that it was indeed Desiree; and how another had come to the palace bearing her name, at that instant he neither knew nor cared.

Who acts: single glance, glance, another, palace, Becasigue, Desiree · What happens: be, show, come, bear, know, care · To what, where: prince, Desiree, palace, name, instant

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 (single glance, glance, another, palace), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 glance	det
2	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 glance	amod
3	glance	glance	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sufficient	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sufficient	cop
5	sufficient	sufficient	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 show	mark
7	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 sufficient	advcl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 prince	det
9	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 show	obj
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 Desiree	mark
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 Desiree	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 Desiree	cop
13	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	14 Desiree	advmod
14	Desiree	Desiree	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 prince	nmod
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 come	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 come	cc
17	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	20 come	advmod
18	another	another	PRON	PronType=Ind	20 come	nsubj
19	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 come	aux
20	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 sufficient	parataxis
21	to	to	ADP	_	23 palace	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 palace	det
23	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 come	obl
24	bearing	bear	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	23 palace	acl
25	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 name	nmod:poss
26	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 bearing	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 knew	punct
28	at	at	ADP	_	30 instant	case
29	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	30 instant	det
30	instant	instant	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 knew	obl
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 knew	nsubj
32	neither	neither	ADV	_	33 knew	advmod
33	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 come	parataxis
34	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	35 cared	cc
35	cared	care	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 knew	conj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 sufficient	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	a single glance				sufficient property	tree rules
2	show	to-infinitive	a single glance not said here		the prince			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent prince=Recipient
3	is a	past	glance	Desiree			indeed property	tree rules
4	come	past · perfect	another			the palace		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to palace=Initial_Location
5	bear	gerund	the palace not said here	Desiree's name				vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Patient
6	know	past	Becasigue			that instant	neither property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
7	care	past	Becasigue not said here					vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
8	name		Desiree					nom name «communication 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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