The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 25, sentence 56
You will find him sitting on the steps weeping for his daughter, who has just died while the prince was away hunting.
Who acts: You, danger, steps, daughter, prince · What happens: find, sit, weep, die, hunt · To what, where: danger
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, danger, steps, daughter), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 find | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 find | aux |
| 3 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 find | obj |
| 5 | sitting | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 find | xcomp |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 steps | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 steps | det |
| 8 | steps | step | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 sitting | obl |
| 9 | weeping | weep | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 steps | acl |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 daughter | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 12 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 weeping | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 died | punct |
| 14 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 died | nsubj |
| 15 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 died | aux |
| 16 | just | just | ADV | _ | 17 died | advmod |
| 17 | died | die | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 daughter | acl:relcl |
| 18 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 23 hunting | mark |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 prince | det |
| 20 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 hunting | nsubj |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 hunting | aux |
| 22 | away | away | ADV | _ | 23 hunting | advmod |
| 23 | hunting | hunt | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 sitting | advcl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 find | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | future | You | danger | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent he=Attribute clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | sit | gerund | danger not said here | on the steps | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on step=Location | ||||
| 3 | weep | gerund | the steps not said here | for danger's daughter | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | die | present · perfect | danger's daughter | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 5 | hunt | past · progressive | the prince | away property | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=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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