The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 28, sentence 68
The frog's heart beat high when her litter drew up before the steps of the palace, and leaning forward she beckoned to her side one of the guards who were standing in his doorway.
Who acts: heart, litter, guards · What happens: beat, draw up, lean, beckon, stand, step · To what, where: one, side, doorway, palace
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 (heart, litter, guards), 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 frog | det |
| 2 | frog | frog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 heart | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 frog | case |
| 4 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 beat | nsubj |
| 5 | beat | beat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | high | high | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 beat | advmod |
| 7 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 drew | advmod |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 litter | nmod:poss |
| 9 | litter | litter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 drew | nsubj |
| 10 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 beat | parataxis |
| 11 | up | up | ADP | _ | 10 drew | compound:prt |
| 12 | before | before | ADP | _ | 14 steps | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 steps | det |
| 14 | steps | step | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 drew | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 palace | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 palace | det |
| 17 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 steps | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 beckoned | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 beckoned | cc |
| 20 | leaning | lean | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 23 beckoned | csubj |
| 21 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 20 leaning | advmod |
| 22 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 beckoned | nsubj |
| 23 | beckoned | beckon | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 drew | conj |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 side | case |
| 25 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 side | nmod:poss |
| 26 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 beckoned | obl |
| 27 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 23 beckoned | obj |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 guards | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 guards | det |
| 30 | guards | guard | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 one | nmod |
| 31 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 33 standing | nsubj |
| 32 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 standing | aux |
| 33 | standing | stand | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 30 guards | acl:relcl |
| 34 | in | in | ADP | _ | 36 doorway | case |
| 35 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 doorway | nmod:poss |
| 36 | doorway | doorway | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 standing | obl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 beat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | beat | present | the frog's heart | high property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | draw up | past | heart's litter | before the steps of the palace | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | lean | gerund | forward property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | beckon | past | litter | one of the guards | heart's side | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent one=Theme to side=Recipient | |||
| 5 | stand | past · progressive | the guards | door's doorway | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in doorway=Location | ||||
| 6 | step | the palace | nom step «act 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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