The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 29, sentence 14
And the king looked, and through the crystal walls he beheld his wife and daughter floating on the quicksilver.
Who acts: king, wife · What happens: look, behold, float · To what, where: wife, crystal walls, quicksilver
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 (king, wife), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 looked | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 king | det |
| 3 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 looked | nsubj |
| 4 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 beheld | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 beheld | cc |
| 7 | through | through | ADP | _ | 10 walls | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 walls | det |
| 9 | crystal | crystal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 walls | compound |
| 10 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 beheld | obl |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 beheld | nsubj |
| 12 | beheld | behold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 looked | conj |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 wife | nmod:poss |
| 14 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 beheld | obj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 daughter | cc |
| 16 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 wife | conj |
| 17 | floating | float | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 wife | acl |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 quicksilver | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 quicksilver | det |
| 20 | quicksilver | quicksilver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 floating | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | the king | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | behold | past | king | king's wife and daughter | the crystal walls | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer wife=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | float | gerund | king's wife and daughter not said here | the quicksilver | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on quicksilver=Trajectory |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/29/14/