The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 29, sentence 21
He had not advanced one single step, nor gained one solitary advantage.
Who acts: king · What happens: not advance, gain · To what, where: one single step, one solitary advantage
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), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 advanced | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 advanced | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 advanced | advmod |
| 4 | advanced | advance | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 step | nummod |
| 6 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 step | amod |
| 7 | step | step | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 advanced | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 gained | punct |
| 9 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 10 gained | cc |
| 10 | gained | gain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 advanced | conj |
| 11 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 advantage | nummod |
| 12 | solitary | solitary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 advantage | amod |
| 13 | advantage | advantage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 gained | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 advanced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not advance | past · perfect | king | one single step | vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | gain | past | king not said here | one solitary advantage | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent advantage=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.
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