The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 26, sentence 45
Seated together in a bower of jessamine--where she had passed long hours as a bride--she took her son's hand and entreated him to tell her the cause of his sorrow. '
Who acts: Fish, son · What happens: seat, pass, take, entreat, tell, cause · To what, where: bower, hand, son, cause, Fish, sorrow · 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 (Fish, son), 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 | Seated | seat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 2 | together | together | ADV | _ | 1 Seated | advmod |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 bower | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 bower | det |
| 5 | bower | bower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Seated | obl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 jessamine | case |
| 7 | jessamine | jessamine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 bower | nmod |
| 8 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 12 passed | punct |
| 9 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 12 passed | advmod |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 passed | nsubj |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 passed | aux |
| 12 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 jessamine | acl:relcl |
| 13 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 hours | amod |
| 14 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 passed | obj |
| 15 | as | as | ADP | _ | 17 bride | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 bride | det |
| 17 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 passed | obl |
| 18 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 20 took | punct |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 took | nsubj |
| 20 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Seated | parataxis |
| 21 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 son | nmod:poss |
| 22 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 hand | nmod:poss |
| 23 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 22 son | case |
| 24 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 took | obj |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 entreated | cc |
| 26 | entreated | entreat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 took | conj |
| 27 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 entreated | obj |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 tell | mark |
| 29 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 entreated | advcl |
| 30 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 tell | iobj |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 cause | det |
| 32 | cause | cause | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 tell | obj |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 sorrow | case |
| 34 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 sorrow | nmod:poss |
| 35 | sorrow | sorrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 cause | nmod |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Seated | punct |
| 37 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 1 Seated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seat | participle | a bower of jessamine | together property | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in bower=Location | ||||
| 2 | pass | past · perfect | Fish | hour | as a bride | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | take | past | Fish | Fish's son's hand | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme | ||||
| 4 | entreat | past | Fish not said here | son | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | tell speech: assert | to-infinitive | Fish not said here | the cause of son's sorrow | Fish | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient cause=Topic | |||
| 6 | cause | son's sorrow | nom cause «event transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 7 | sorrow | son | nom sorrow «feeling intransitive»: 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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