The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 28, sentence 52
By the time she reached the top, she was so tired that she had to remain for another year on the banks of a stream to rest, and also to arrange the procession with which she was to present herself before the king.
Who acts: frog · What happens: reach, be, have, remain, rest, arrange · To what, where: top, banks, procession
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 (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 | By | by | ADP | _ | 3 time | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 reached | obl |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 reached | nsubj |
| 5 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 top | det |
| 7 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 reached | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 tired | punct |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 tired | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 tired | cop |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 tired | advmod |
| 12 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 reached | parataxis |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 had | mark |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 had | nsubj |
| 15 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 tired | advcl |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 remain | mark |
| 17 | remain | remain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 had | xcomp |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 year | case |
| 19 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 20 year | det |
| 20 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 remain | obl |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 banks | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 banks | det |
| 23 | banks | bank | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 remain | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 stream | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 stream | det |
| 26 | stream | stream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 banks | nmod |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 rest | mark |
| 28 | rest | rest | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 remain | advcl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 arrange | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 arrange | cc |
| 31 | also | also | ADV | _ | 33 arrange | advmod |
| 32 | to | to | PART | _ | 33 arrange | mark |
| 33 | arrange | arrange | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 reached | conj |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 procession | det |
| 35 | procession | procession | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 arrange | obj |
| 36 | with | with | ADP | _ | 37 which | case |
| 37 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 41 present | obl |
| 38 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 present | nsubj |
| 39 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 41 present | cop |
| 40 | to | to | PART | _ | 41 present | mark |
| 41 | present | present | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 35 procession | acl:relcl |
| 42 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 41 present | obj |
| 43 | before | before | ADP | _ | 45 king | case |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 king | det |
| 45 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 present | obl |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 reached | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | past | frog | the top | time | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent top=Theme | |||
| 2 | is | past | frog | tired property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | have | past | frog | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | remain | to-infinitive | frog not said here | the banks of a stream | year | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on bank=Location | |||
| 5 | rest | to-infinitive | frog not said here | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | arrange | to-infinitive | frog not said here | the procession | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent procession=Product | ||||
| 7 | is | past | frog | the procession not said here | before the king | with the procession; present property | tree rules |
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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