The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 28, sentence 58
The journey lasted seven years, and all this time the queen suffered tortures of hope, though Muffette did her best to comfort her.
Who acts: journey, queen, Muffette · What happens: last, suffer, do, comfort, torture · To what, where: tortures, Muffette, hope
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 (journey, queen, Muffette), 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 | 2 journey | det |
| 2 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lasted | nsubj |
| 3 | lasted | last | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 years | nummod |
| 5 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 lasted | obl:unmarked |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 suffered | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 suffered | cc |
| 8 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 time | det:predet |
| 9 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 time | det |
| 10 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 suffered | obl:unmarked |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 queen | det |
| 12 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 suffered | nsubj |
| 13 | suffered | suffer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 lasted | parataxis |
| 14 | tortures | torture | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 suffered | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 hope | case |
| 16 | hope | hope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 tortures | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 did | punct |
| 18 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 20 did | mark |
| 19 | Muffette | Muffette | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 did | nsubj |
| 20 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 suffered | conj |
| 21 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 best | nmod:poss |
| 22 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 20 did | parataxis |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 comfort | mark |
| 24 | comfort | comfort | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 best | csubj |
| 25 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 comfort | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 lasted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | last | past | the journey | year | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | suffer | past | the queen | tortures of hope | time | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer torture=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | do | past | Muffette | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | comfort | to-infinitive | Muffette | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus she=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | torture | hope | nom torture «feeling 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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