The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 28, sentence 70
'His Majesty is engaged, and can see no one,' answered the soldier.
What happens: engage, see, answer · To what, where: Majesty, one, soldier
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: 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 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 engaged | punct |
| 2 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 Majesty | nmod:poss |
| 3 | Majesty | Majesty | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 engaged | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 engaged | aux:pass |
| 5 | engaged | engage | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 see | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 see | cc |
| 8 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 see | aux |
| 9 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 engaged | parataxis |
| 10 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 11 one | det |
| 11 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 see | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 answered | punct |
| 13 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 answered | punct |
| 14 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 engaged | parataxis |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 soldier | det |
| 16 | soldier | soldier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 answered | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 engaged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | engage | present · passive | door's Majesty | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 2 | see | can | no one | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer one=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | answer speech: assert | past | the soldier | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent soldier=Eventuality |
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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