The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 29, sentence 23
It was at this moment of his blackest misery that, one night, a dragon who had long watched him from the roof crept to his side.
Who acts: lake, one night · What happens: be, watch, creep · To what, where: dragon, roof, blackest misery
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 (lake, one night), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 moment | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 moment | cop |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 moment | case |
| 4 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 moment | det |
| 5 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 misery | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 misery | nmod:poss |
| 8 | blackest | black | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 9 misery | amod |
| 9 | misery | misery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 moment | nmod |
| 10 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 crept | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 night | punct |
| 12 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 night | nummod |
| 13 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 crept | nsubj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 dragon | punct |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 dragon | det |
| 16 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 night | appos |
| 17 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 watched | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 watched | aux |
| 19 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 20 watched | advmod |
| 20 | watched | watch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 dragon | acl:relcl |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 watched | obj |
| 22 | from | from | ADP | _ | 24 roof | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 roof | det |
| 24 | roof | roof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 watched | obl |
| 25 | crept | creep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 misery | acl:relcl |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 side | case |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 side | nmod:poss |
| 28 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 crept | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 moment | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | lake | at this moment | of king's blackest misery | tree rules | |||
| 2 | watch | past · perfect · passive | a dragon | the roof | long property | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP.attribute»: subject=Theme he=Attribute | |||
| 3 | creep | past | one night | king's blackest misery | to king's side | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location that=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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