The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 28, sentence 81
When at length he found his voice he told his councillors that the writing was indeed that of the queen, and now that he had the joy of knowing she was alive he could, of course, proceed no further with his second marriage.
Who acts: king, writing, joy, queen · What happens: find, tell, be, have, know, proceed · To what, where: voice, length, councillors, that, joy · Speech: someone speaks here
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, writing, joy, queen), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 found | advmod |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 3 length | case |
| 3 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 found | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 found | nsubj |
| 5 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 told | advcl |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 voice | nmod:poss |
| 7 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 found | obj |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 told | nsubj |
| 9 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 councillors | nmod:poss |
| 11 | councillors | councillor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 told | iobj |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 that | mark |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 writing | det |
| 14 | writing | writing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 that | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 that | cop |
| 16 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 17 that | advmod |
| 17 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 told | ccomp |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 queen | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 queen | det |
| 20 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 that | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 had | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 had | cc |
| 23 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 26 had | advmod |
| 24 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 26 had | mark |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 had | nsubj |
| 26 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 told | parataxis |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 joy | det |
| 28 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 had | obj |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 knowing | case |
| 30 | knowing | know | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 28 joy | acl |
| 31 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 alive | nsubj |
| 32 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 alive | cop |
| 33 | alive | alive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 knowing | ccomp |
| 34 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 could | nsubj |
| 35 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 33 alive | aux |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 proceed | punct |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | ExtPos=ADV | 40 proceed | advmod |
| 38 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 of | fixed |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 of | punct |
| 40 | proceed | proceed | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 had | conj |
| 41 | no | no | ADV | _ | 42 further | advmod |
| 42 | further | far | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 40 proceed | advmod |
| 43 | with | with | ADP | _ | 46 marriage | case |
| 44 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 46 marriage | nmod:poss |
| 45 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 46 marriage | amod |
| 46 | marriage | marriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 proceed | obl |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past | king | king's voice | length | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent voice=Theme at length=Asset | |||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past | king | king's councillors | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent councillor=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | is a | past | the writing | that | of the queen; indeed property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | have | past | king | the joy | now | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent joy=Patient | |||
| 5 | know | gerund | the joy not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 6 | is | could · past | queen | alive property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | proceed | infinitive | king not said here | with king's second marriage; far property | vn begin-55.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 8 | marry | king | nom marriage «state 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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