The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 29, sentence 19
Three years passed by, and the king was no nearer to obtaining his heart's desire.
Who acts: king, heart · What happens: pass by, be, obtain, desire · To what, where: desire
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, heart), 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 | Three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 years | nummod |
| 2 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 passed | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 3 passed | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 nearer | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 nearer | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 king | det |
| 8 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 nearer | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 nearer | cop |
| 10 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 11 nearer | det |
| 11 | nearer | near | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 passed | parataxis |
| 12 | to | to | SCONJ | _ | 13 obtaining | mark |
| 13 | obtaining | obtain | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 nearer | advcl |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 heart | nmod:poss |
| 15 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 desire | nmod:poss |
| 16 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 15 heart | case |
| 17 | desire | desire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 obtaining | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass by | participle | year | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is | past | the king | near property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | obtain | gerund | the king not said here | king's heart's desire | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset desire=Theme | ||||
| 4 | desire | king's heart | nom desire «feeling transitive»: poss=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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