The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 29, sentence 17
The queen knew his voice, and she and Muffette ran to the window and held out their hands.
Who acts: queen, wife · What happens: know, run, hold out · To what, where: voice, hands
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 (queen, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 queen | det |
| 2 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 knew | nsubj |
| 3 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 voice | nmod:poss |
| 5 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 knew | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 ran | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 ran | cc |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 ran | nsubj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 Muffette | cc |
| 10 | Muffette | Muffette | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 she | conj |
| 11 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 knew | parataxis |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 window | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 window | det |
| 14 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 ran | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 held | cc |
| 16 | held | hold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 ran | conj |
| 17 | out | out | ADP | _ | 16 held | compound:prt |
| 18 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 hands | nmod:poss |
| 19 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 held | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 knew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | past | the queen | wickedness's voice | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer voice=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | run | past | wife | to the window result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to window=Result | ||||
| 3 | hold out | participle | wife not said here | queen's hands | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/29/17/