The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 26, sentence 12
He knew he was beaten, and still holding the chaplet of stars, he turned to the girl.
Who acts: crown · What happens: know, beat, hold, turn · To what, where: crown, chaplet · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (crown), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 knew | nsubj |
| 2 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 beaten | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 beaten | aux:pass |
| 5 | beaten | beat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 knew | ccomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 holding | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 holding | cc |
| 8 | still | still | ADV | _ | 9 holding | advmod |
| 9 | holding | hold | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 knew | advcl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 chaplet | det |
| 11 | chaplet | chaplet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 holding | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 stars | case |
| 13 | stars | star | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 chaplet | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 turned | punct |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 turned | nsubj |
| 16 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 knew | parataxis |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 girl | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 girl | det |
| 19 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 turned | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 knew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | past | crown | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | beat | past · passive | crown | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 3 | hold | gerund | crown not said here | the chaplet of stars | still | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chaplet=Theme | |||
| 4 | turn | past | crown | to the girl result | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to girl=Result |
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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