The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 27, sentence 101
The poor queen crouched under a rock for the rest of the night, and the next morning, when she woke from her troubled dreams, she was cheered at seeing the frog watching by her.
Who acts: queen, frog · What happens: crouch, wake, cheer, see, watch, dream · To what, where: poor queen, rock, troubled dreams, queen, frog
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (queen, frog), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 queen | det |
| 2 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 queen | amod |
| 3 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | crouched | crouch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 queen | acl |
| 5 | under | under | ADP | _ | 7 rock | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 rock | det |
| 7 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 crouched | obl |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 rest | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 rest | det |
| 10 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 crouched | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 night | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 night | det |
| 13 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 rest | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 morning | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 morning | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 morning | det |
| 17 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 morning | amod |
| 18 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 queen | parataxis |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 woke | punct |
| 20 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 22 woke | advmod |
| 21 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 woke | nsubj |
| 22 | woke | wake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 morning | parataxis |
| 23 | from | from | ADP | _ | 26 dreams | case |
| 24 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 dreams | nmod:poss |
| 25 | troubled | troubled | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 dreams | amod |
| 26 | dreams | dream | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 woke | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 cheered | punct |
| 28 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 cheered | nsubj |
| 29 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 cheered | aux:pass |
| 30 | cheered | cheer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 woke | conj |
| 31 | at | at | SCONJ | _ | 32 seeing | mark |
| 32 | seeing | see | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 30 cheered | advcl |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 frog | det |
| 34 | frog | frog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 seeing | obj |
| 35 | watching | watch | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 34 frog | acl |
| 36 | by | by | ADP | _ | 37 her | case |
| 37 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 watching | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 queen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | crouch | participle | the poor queen not said here | a rock | for the rest of the night | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under rock=Location | |||
| 2 | wake | past | queen | queen's troubled dreams | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | cheer | past · passive | queen | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | see | gerund | the frog | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer frog=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | watch | gerund | the frog not said here | by queen | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by she=Location | ||||
| 6 | dream | queen | nom dream «cognition 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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