The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 27, sentence 32
At the sight of this strange figure the queen thought she must be dead, and gazing on an inhabitant of another world.
Who acts: queen · What happens: think, be, gaze, sight · To what, where: sight, strange figure · Speech: someone speaks here
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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 sight | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 sight | det |
| 3 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 thought | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 figure | case |
| 5 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 figure | det |
| 6 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 figure | amod |
| 7 | figure | figure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sight | nmod |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 queen | det |
| 9 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 thought | nsubj |
| 10 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 dead | nsubj |
| 12 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 dead | aux |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 dead | cop |
| 14 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 thought | ccomp |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 gazing | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 gazing | cc |
| 17 | gazing | gaze | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 thought | advcl |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 inhabitant | case |
| 19 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 inhabitant | det |
| 20 | inhabitant | inhabitant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 gazing | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 world | case |
| 22 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 23 world | det |
| 23 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 inhabitant | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | the queen | the sight of this strange figure | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is | must | queen | dead property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | gaze | gerund | the queen not said here | on a inhabitant of another world | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on inhabitant=Theme | ||||
| 4 | sight | this strange figure | nom sight «cognition 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/27/32/