The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 26, sentence 57
And she told him in broken words that, as he had guessed, it was no deer but an enchanted maiden who had won back the crown and brought her home to her own people.
Who acts: head, crown, place, enchanted maiden · What happens: tell, guess, be, enchant, win back, bring · To what, where: crown, broken words, deer, home, own people · 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 (head, crown, place, enchanted maiden), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 told | cc |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 told | nsubj |
| 3 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 told | iobj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 words | case |
| 6 | broken | broken | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 words | amod |
| 7 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 told | obl |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 guessed | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 guessed | punct |
| 10 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 13 guessed | mark |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 guessed | nsubj |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 guessed | aux |
| 13 | guessed | guess | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 words | acl:relcl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 told | punct |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 deer | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 deer | cop |
| 17 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 18 deer | det |
| 18 | deer | deer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 told | parataxis |
| 19 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 maiden | cc |
| 20 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 maiden | det |
| 21 | enchanted | enchant | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 maiden | amod |
| 22 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 deer | conj |
| 23 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 won | nsubj |
| 24 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 won | aux |
| 25 | won | win | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 22 maiden | acl:relcl |
| 26 | back | back | ADV | _ | 25 won | advmod |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 crown | det |
| 28 | crown | crown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 won | obj |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 brought | cc |
| 30 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 won | conj |
| 31 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 home | nmod:poss |
| 32 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 brought | obj |
| 33 | to | to | ADP | _ | 36 people | case |
| 34 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 people | nmod:poss |
| 35 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 people | amod |
| 36 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 brought | obl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | head | crown | broken words | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | |||
| 2 | guess | past · perfect | crown | broken words | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is a | past | place | no deer but a enchanted maiden | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | enchant | participle | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 5 | win back | past · perfect | a enchanted maiden | the crown | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crown=Eventuality | ||||
| 6 | bring | past | a enchanted maiden not said here | head's home | head's own people | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent home=Theme to people=Destination |
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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