The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 29, sentence 108
The door was opened and he entered, but paused when he beheld an old man lying on a bench by the fire, while seated opposite him was a maiden combing out the locks of her golden hair with a comb of silver.
Who acts: blessing, old man, maiden · What happens: open, enter, pause, behold, lie, seat · To what, where: door, old man, bench, locks
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (blessing, old man, maiden), 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 door | det |
| 2 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 opened | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 opened | aux:pass |
| 4 | opened | open | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 entered | cc |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 entered | nsubj |
| 7 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 opened | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 paused | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 paused | cc |
| 10 | paused | pause | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 opened | conj |
| 11 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 beheld | advmod |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 beheld | nsubj |
| 13 | beheld | behold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 paused | advcl |
| 14 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 man | det |
| 15 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 man | amod |
| 16 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 beheld | obj |
| 17 | lying | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 man | acl |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 bench | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 bench | det |
| 20 | bench | bench | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 lying | obl |
| 21 | by | by | ADP | _ | 23 fire | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 fire | det |
| 23 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 lying | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 seated | punct |
| 25 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 26 seated | mark |
| 26 | seated | seat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 beheld | conj |
| 27 | opposite | opposite | ADP | _ | 28 him | case |
| 28 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 seated | obl |
| 29 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 paused | conj |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 maiden | det |
| 31 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 was | nsubj |
| 32 | combing | comb | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 31 maiden | acl |
| 33 | out | out | ADP | _ | 32 combing | compound:prt |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 locks | det |
| 35 | locks | lock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 combing | obj |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 hair | case |
| 37 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 hair | nmod:poss |
| 38 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 hair | amod |
| 39 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 locks | nmod |
| 40 | with | with | ADP | _ | 42 comb | case |
| 41 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 42 comb | det |
| 42 | comb | comb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 hair | nmod |
| 43 | of | of | ADP | _ | 44 silver | case |
| 44 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 comb | nmod |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 opened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | open | past · passive | the door | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | enter | past | blessing | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | pause | past | vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | behold | past | blessing | a old man | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | lie | gerund | a old man not said here | a bench | by the fire | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on bench=Location | |||
| 6 | seat | participle | blessing not said here | opposite blessing | vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location | ||||
| 7 | be | past | a maiden | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 8 | comb out | gerund | a maiden not said here | the locks of maiden's golden hair with a comb of silver | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lock=Patient |
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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