The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 28, sentence 1
The poor queen returned to her house looking so sad that the frog, who was waiting for her, noticed it directly.
Who acts: poor queen, frog · What happens: return, look, wait, notice · To what, where: house
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (poor 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 | 4 returned | nsubj |
| 4 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 house | case |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 house | nmod:poss |
| 7 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 returned | obl |
| 8 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 returned | advcl |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 10 sad | advmod |
| 10 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 looking | xcomp |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 noticed | mark |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 frog | det |
| 13 | frog | frog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 noticed | nsubj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 waiting | punct |
| 15 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 waiting | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 waiting | aux |
| 17 | waiting | wait | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 frog | acl:relcl |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 her | case |
| 19 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 waiting | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 frog | punct |
| 21 | noticed | notice | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 sad | advcl |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 noticed | obj |
| 23 | directly | directly | ADV | _ | 21 noticed | advmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 returned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | past | the poor queen | to queen's house result | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to house=Result | ||||
| 2 | look | gerund | the poor queen not said here | sad property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | wait | past · progressive | the frog | for queen | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | notice | past | the frog | house | directly property | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
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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