The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 27, sentence 14
Now the queen had only been married a few months, and in her own home she had been used to walk and ride all over the hills without any attendants at all; so she felt very dull at her being shut up in this way.
Who acts: queen · What happens: marry, use, walk, ride, feel, shut up · To what, where: queen, own home, hills, way
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), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 married | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 queen | det |
| 3 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 married | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 married | aux |
| 5 | only | only | ADV | _ | 7 married | advmod |
| 6 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 married | aux:pass |
| 7 | married | marry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 months | det |
| 9 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 months | amod |
| 10 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 married | obl:unmarked |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 home | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 home | cc |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 home | case |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 home | nmod:poss |
| 15 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 home | amod |
| 16 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 married | obl |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 used | nsubj |
| 18 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 used | aux |
| 19 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 20 used | aux:pass |
| 20 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 home | acl:relcl |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 walk | mark |
| 22 | walk | walk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 used | xcomp |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 ride | cc |
| 24 | ride | ride | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 walk | conj |
| 25 | all | all | ADV | _ | 28 hills | advmod |
| 26 | over | over | ADP | _ | 28 hills | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 hills | det |
| 28 | hills | hill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 ride | obj |
| 29 | without | without | ADP | _ | 31 attendants | case |
| 30 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 31 attendants | det |
| 31 | attendants | attendant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 ride | obl |
| 32 | at | at | ADP | _ | 33 all | case |
| 33 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 31 attendants | nmod |
| 34 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 37 felt | punct |
| 35 | so | so | ADV | _ | 37 felt | advmod |
| 36 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 felt | nsubj |
| 37 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 married | conj |
| 38 | very | very | ADV | _ | 39 dull | advmod |
| 39 | dull | dull | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 felt | xcomp |
| 40 | at | at | SCONJ | _ | 43 shut | mark |
| 41 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 43 shut | nmod:poss |
| 42 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 43 shut | aux:pass |
| 43 | shut | shut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 37 felt | advcl |
| 44 | up | up | ADP | _ | 43 shut | compound:prt |
| 45 | in | in | ADP | _ | 47 way | case |
| 46 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 47 way | det |
| 47 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 shut | obl |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 married | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | marry | past · perfect · passive | the queen | queen's own home | now; month | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||
| 2 | use | past · perfect · passive | queen | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Theme clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | walk | to-infinitive | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | ride | infinitive | the hills | without any attendants at all | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hill=Theme | ||||
| 5 | feel | past | queen | dull property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | shut up | gerund · passive | queen not said here | this way | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP» |
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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