The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 28, sentence 74
'Her remembrance will always be dear to me,' answered the king gently, though all present expected him to rebuke the frog severely for her impertinence.
Who acts: remembrance, present, king, frog · What happens: be, answer, expect, rebuke, remember · To what, where: me, king, frog
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 (remembrance, present, king, frog), 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 | _ | 7 dear | punct |
| 2 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 remembrance | nmod:poss |
| 3 | remembrance | remembrance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 dear | nsubj |
| 4 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 dear | aux |
| 5 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 7 dear | advmod |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 dear | cop |
| 7 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 me | case |
| 9 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 dear | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 answered | punct |
| 11 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 answered | punct |
| 12 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 dear | parataxis |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 king | det |
| 14 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 answered | obj |
| 15 | gently | gently | ADV | _ | 12 answered | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 expected | punct |
| 17 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 20 expected | mark |
| 18 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 present | det |
| 19 | present | present | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 expected | nsubj |
| 20 | expected | expect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 answered | conj |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 expected | obj |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 rebuke | mark |
| 23 | rebuke | rebuke | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 expected | xcomp |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 frog | det |
| 25 | frog | frog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 rebuke | obj |
| 26 | severely | severely | ADV | _ | 23 rebuke | advmod |
| 27 | for | for | ADP | _ | 29 impertinence | case |
| 28 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 impertinence | nmod:poss |
| 29 | impertinence | impertinence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 rebuke | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 dear | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | future | frog's remembrance | me | always, dear property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | the king | gently property | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent king=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | expect | past | all present | king | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | rebuke not said to happen | to-infinitive | king not said here | the frog | for frog's impertinence; severely property | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent frog=Theme for impertinence=Attribute | |||
| 5 | remember | frog | nom remembrance «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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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