The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 28, sentence 90
But the moment they and the princess had seated themselves on the soft cushions, river and boats vanished, and the princess and the ambassadors vanished too.
Who acts: river, princess · What happens: seat, vanish · To what, where: moment, soft cushions
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 (river, princess), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 seated | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 moment | det |
| 3 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 seated | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 seated | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 princess | cc |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 princess | det |
| 7 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 they | conj |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 seated | aux |
| 9 | seated | seat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 9 seated | obj |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 cushions | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 cushions | det |
| 13 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 cushions | amod |
| 14 | cushions | cushion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 seated | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 river | punct |
| 16 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 vanished | nsubj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 boats | cc |
| 18 | boats | boat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 river | conj |
| 19 | vanished | vanish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 cushions | acl:relcl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 vanished | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 vanished | cc |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 princess | det |
| 23 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 vanished | nsubj |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 ambassadors | cc |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 ambassadors | det |
| 26 | ambassadors | ambassador | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 princess | conj |
| 27 | vanished | vanish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 seated | conj |
| 28 | too | too | ADV | _ | 27 vanished | advmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 seated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seat | past · perfect · passive | the moment | the soft cushions | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | vanish | past | river and boats | the soft cushions not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | vanish | past | the princess and the ambassadors | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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