The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 28, sentence 98
Having nothing to guide him as to where he was likely to find the entrance of the under- world, the king wandered hither and thither for a long while, till, one day, while he was resting under a tree, a voice spoke to him.
Who acts: nothing, king, voice · What happens: have, guide, be, find, wander, rest · To what, where: king, entrance, tree · 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 (nothing, king, voice), 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 | Having | have | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 nothing | amod |
| 2 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 24 wandered | nsubj |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 guide | mark |
| 4 | guide | guide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 nothing | acl |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 guide | obj |
| 6 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 11 likely | mark |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 as | fixed |
| 8 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 11 likely | advmod |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 likely | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 likely | cop |
| 11 | likely | likely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 guide | advcl |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 find | mark |
| 13 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 likely | xcomp |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 entrance | det |
| 15 | entrance | entrance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 find | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 world | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 world | det |
| 18 | under | under | ADP | _ | 20 world | case |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 under | punct |
| 20 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 entrance | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 nothing | punct |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 king | det |
| 23 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 wandered | nsubj |
| 24 | wandered | wander | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 25 | hither | hither | ADV | _ | 24 wandered | advmod |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 thither | cc |
| 27 | thither | thither | ADV | _ | 25 hither | conj |
| 28 | for | for | ADP | _ | 31 while | case |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 while | det |
| 30 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 while | amod |
| 31 | while | while | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 wandered | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 day | punct |
| 33 | till | till | ADP | _ | 36 day | case |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 day | punct |
| 35 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 36 day | nummod |
| 36 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 wandered | obl |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 resting | punct |
| 38 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 41 resting | mark |
| 39 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 resting | nsubj |
| 40 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 41 resting | aux |
| 41 | resting | rest | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 24 wandered | advcl |
| 42 | under | under | ADP | _ | 44 tree | case |
| 43 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 44 tree | det |
| 44 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 resting | obl |
| 45 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 spoke | punct |
| 46 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 47 voice | det |
| 47 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 spoke | nsubj |
| 48 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 wandered | parataxis |
| 49 | to | to | ADP | _ | 50 him | case |
| 50 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 48 spoke | obl |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 24 wandered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | gerund | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | guide | to-infinitive | nothing not said here | king | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | past | king | likely property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | find | to-infinitive | king not said here | the entrance of the world | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent entrance=Topic | ||||
| 5 | wander | past | nothing | day; while | hither property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 6 | rest | past · progressive | king | a tree | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent under tree=Location | ||||
| 7 | speak speech: other | past | a voice | king | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to he=Co-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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