The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 27, sentence 48
For some days the queen was so much shaken by all she had gone through that she lay with her eyes closed, unable either to move or speak.
Who acts: queen · What happens: shake, go through, lie, close, move, speak · To what, where: queen · 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 3 days | case |
| 2 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 days | det |
| 3 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 shaken | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 queen | det |
| 5 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 shaken | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 shaken | aux:pass |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 8 much | advmod |
| 8 | much | much | ADV | _ | 9 shaken | advmod |
| 9 | shaken | shake | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 all | case |
| 11 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 shaken | obl |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 gone | nsubj |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 gone | aux |
| 14 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 shaken | parataxis |
| 15 | through | through | ADP | _ | 14 gone | obl |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 lay | mark |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 lay | nsubj |
| 18 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 gone | advcl |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 eyes | case |
| 20 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 21 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 lay | obl |
| 22 | closed | close | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 lay | xcomp |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 unable | punct |
| 24 | unable | unable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 lay | conj |
| 25 | either | either | CCONJ | _ | 27 move | cc:preconj |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 move | mark |
| 27 | move | move | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 unable | xcomp |
| 28 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 29 speak | cc |
| 29 | speak | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 move | conj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 shaken | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shake | past · passive | the queen | day | by all | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme by all=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | go through | past · perfect | queen | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | lie | past | queen | with queen's eyes | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | close | participle | queen not said here | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 5 | move | to-infinitive | queen not said here | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | speak speech: other | infinitive | queen not said here | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=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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