The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 28, sentence 64
But at length the end was in sight, and the hardships were forgotten in the vision of the towers of the king's palace; and, one bright morning, the cavalcade entered the gates with all the pomp and circumstance of a royal embassy.
Who acts: end, cavalcade · What happens: be, forget, enter · To what, where: sight, hardships, vision, gates
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 (end, cavalcade), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 sight | cc |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 3 length | case |
| 3 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sight | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 end | det |
| 5 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sight | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 sight | cop |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 sight | case |
| 8 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 forgotten | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 forgotten | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 hardships | det |
| 12 | hardships | hardship | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 forgotten | nsubj |
| 13 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 forgotten | aux:pass |
| 14 | forgotten | forget | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 sight | parataxis |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 vision | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 vision | det |
| 17 | vision | vision | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 forgotten | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 towers | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 towers | det |
| 20 | towers | tower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 vision | nmod |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 palace | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 king | det |
| 23 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 palace | nmod:poss |
| 24 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 23 king | case |
| 25 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 towers | nmod |
| 26 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 35 entered | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 entered | cc |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 morning | punct |
| 29 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 31 morning | nummod |
| 30 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 morning | amod |
| 31 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 entered | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 morning | punct |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 cavalcade | det |
| 34 | cavalcade | cavalcade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 entered | nsubj |
| 35 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 forgotten | conj |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 gates | det |
| 37 | gates | gate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 entered | obj |
| 38 | with | with | ADP | _ | 41 pomp | case |
| 39 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 41 pomp | det:predet |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 pomp | det |
| 41 | pomp | pomp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 entered | obl |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 circumstance | cc |
| 43 | circumstance | circumstance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 pomp | conj |
| 44 | of | of | ADP | _ | 47 embassy | case |
| 45 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 47 embassy | det |
| 46 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 47 embassy | amod |
| 47 | embassy | embassy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 circumstance | nmod |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 sight | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the end | sight | at length | tree rules | |||
| 2 | forget | past · passive | the hardships | the vision of the towers of the king's palace | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | enter | past | the cavalcade | the gates | morning | with all pomp and circumstance of a royal embassy | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme gate=Destination |
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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