The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 28, sentence 71
'His Majesty will see ME,' returned the frog, fixing her eye upon him; and somehow the man found himself leading the procession along the gallery into the Hall of Audience, where the king sat surrounded by his nobles arranging the dresses which everyone was to wear at his marriage ceremony.
Who acts: Majesty, man, door, king, nobles, everyone · What happens: see, return, fix, find, lead, sit · To what, where: ME, frog, eye, door, procession, Hall
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 (Majesty, man, door, king), 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 see | punct |
| 2 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 Majesty | nmod:poss |
| 3 | Majesty | majesty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 see | nsubj |
| 4 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 see | aux |
| 5 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 returned | ccomp |
| 6 | ME | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 see | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 see | punct |
| 8 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 see | punct |
| 9 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 frog | det |
| 11 | frog | frog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 returned | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 fixing | punct |
| 13 | fixing | fix | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 returned | advcl |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 eye | nmod:poss |
| 15 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 fixing | obj |
| 16 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 17 him | case |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 fixing | obl |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 found | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 found | cc |
| 20 | somehow | somehow | ADV | _ | 23 found | advmod |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 man | det |
| 22 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 found | nsubj |
| 23 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 returned | conj |
| 24 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 23 found | obj |
| 25 | leading | lead | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 23 found | xcomp |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 procession | det |
| 27 | procession | procession | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 leading | obj |
| 28 | along | along | ADP | _ | 30 gallery | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 gallery | det |
| 30 | gallery | gallery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 leading | obl |
| 31 | into | into | ADP | _ | 33 Hall | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 Hall | det |
| 33 | Hall | Hall | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 leading | obl |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 Audience | case |
| 35 | Audience | Audience | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 Hall | nmod |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 sat | punct |
| 37 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 40 sat | advmod |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 king | det |
| 39 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 sat | nsubj |
| 40 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 Hall | acl:relcl |
| 41 | surrounded | surround | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 40 sat | advcl |
| 42 | by | by | ADP | _ | 44 nobles | case |
| 43 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 44 nobles | nmod:poss |
| 44 | nobles | noble | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 surrounded | obl:agent |
| 45 | arranging | arrange | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 44 nobles | acl |
| 46 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 47 dresses | det |
| 47 | dresses | dress | NOUN | Number=Plur | 45 arranging | obj |
| 48 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 52 wear | obj |
| 49 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 52 wear | nsubj |
| 50 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 52 wear | cop |
| 51 | to | to | PART | _ | 52 wear | mark |
| 52 | wear | wear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 47 dresses | acl:relcl |
| 53 | at | at | ADP | _ | 56 ceremony | case |
| 54 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 56 ceremony | nmod:poss |
| 55 | marriage | marriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 56 ceremony | compound |
| 56 | ceremony | ceremony | NOUN | Number=Sing | 52 wear | obl |
| 57 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 returned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | future | door's Majesty | ME | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | return | past | the frog | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | fix | gerund | Majesty's eye | upon door | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent eye=Patient | ||||
| 4 | find | past | the man | door | somehow property | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent himself=Attribute clause=Theme | |||
| 5 | lead | gerund | door not said here | the procession | the Hall of Audience | along the gallery | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent procession=Theme along gallery=Destination | ||
| 6 | sit | past | the king | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | surround | participle | the king not said here | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 8 | arrange | gerund | door's nobles not said here | the dresses | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dress=Product | ||||
| 9 | is | past | everyone | the dresses not said here | door's marriage ceremony | wear 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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