The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 27, sentence 15
However, she bore it for a long while because it was the king's wish, but when time passed and there were no signs of the war drifting in the direction of the castle, she grew bolder, and sometimes strayed outside the walls, in the direction of the forest.
Who acts: queen, way, signs, war · What happens: bear, be, pass, drift, grow, stray · To what, where: way, wish, direction, war
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, way, signs, war), 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 | However | however | ADV | _ | 4 bore | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 However | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 bore | nsubj |
| 4 | bore | bear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 bore | obj |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 while | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 while | det |
| 8 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 while | amod |
| 9 | while | while | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bore | obl |
| 10 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 16 wish | mark |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 wish | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 wish | cop |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 king | det |
| 14 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 wish | nmod:poss |
| 15 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 14 king | case |
| 16 | wish | wish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bore | advcl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 passed | punct |
| 18 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 passed | cc |
| 19 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 21 passed | advmod |
| 20 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 passed | obl:unmarked |
| 21 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 bore | parataxis |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 were | cc |
| 23 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 24 were | expl |
| 24 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 passed | conj |
| 25 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 26 signs | det |
| 26 | signs | sign | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 were | nsubj |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 war | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 war | det |
| 29 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 signs | nmod |
| 30 | drifting | drift | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 29 war | acl |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 33 direction | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 direction | det |
| 33 | direction | direction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 drifting | obl |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 castle | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 castle | det |
| 36 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 direction | nmod |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 grew | punct |
| 38 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 grew | nsubj |
| 39 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 bore | parataxis |
| 40 | bolder | bold | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 39 grew | xcomp |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 strayed | punct |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 strayed | cc |
| 43 | sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 44 strayed | advmod |
| 44 | strayed | stray | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 39 grew | conj |
| 45 | outside | outside | ADP | _ | 47 walls | case |
| 46 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 47 walls | det |
| 47 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 44 strayed | obl |
| 48 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 51 direction | punct |
| 49 | in | in | ADP | _ | 51 direction | case |
| 50 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 51 direction | det |
| 51 | direction | direction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 strayed | obl |
| 52 | of | of | ADP | _ | 54 forest | case |
| 53 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 54 forest | det |
| 54 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 51 direction | nmod |
| 55 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 bore | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bear | past | queen | way | while | however property | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | ||
| 2 | is a | past | way | the king's wish | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | pass | participle | time | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | be | past | no signs of the war | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | drift | gerund | the war not said here | the direction of the castle | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in direction=Trajectory | ||||
| 6 | grow | past | queen | bold property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 7 | stray | participle | queen not said here | the direction of the forest | outside the walls; sometimes property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme outside wall=Trajectory | |||
| 8 | sign | the war | nom sign «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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