The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 28, sentence 79
The king turned pale when he heard these words, and his hand trembled so that he could hardly read what the queen had written.
Who acts: king, hand · What happens: turn, hear, tremble, read, write · To what, where: words, queen
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 (king, hand), 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 king | det |
| 2 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 turned | nsubj |
| 3 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | pale | pale | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 turned | xcomp |
| 5 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 heard | advmod |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 heard | nsubj |
| 7 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 turned | advcl |
| 8 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 9 words | det |
| 9 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 heard | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 trembled | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 trembled | cc |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 hand | nmod:poss |
| 13 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 trembled | nsubj |
| 14 | trembled | tremble | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 turned | conj |
| 15 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 20 read | mark |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 so | fixed |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 read | nsubj |
| 18 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 read | aux |
| 19 | hardly | hardly | ADV | _ | 20 read | advmod |
| 20 | read | read | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 trembled | advcl |
| 21 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 25 written | obj |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 queen | det |
| 23 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 written | nsubj:pass |
| 24 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 written | aux |
| 25 | written | write | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 read | ccomp |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | past | the king | pale property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | hear | past | king | this words | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | tremble | participle | king's hand | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | read | could | king | hardly property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 5 | write | past · perfect · passive | the queen | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient what=Topic |
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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