The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 29, sentence 31
At length the horrible creatures flew away; a sound like thunder was heard, the palace and the monsters vanished, while, at the same moment--no one knew how-- the king found himself standing with his wife and daughter in the hall of his own home.
Who acts: horrible creatures, monsters, one, king · What happens: fly away, hear, vanish, know, find, stand · To what, where: length, sound, same moment, king, hall
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 (horrible creatures, monsters, one, 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 length | case |
| 2 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 flew | obl |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 creatures | det |
| 4 | horrible | horrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 creatures | amod |
| 5 | creatures | creature | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 flew | nsubj |
| 6 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | away | away | ADV | _ | 6 flew | advmod |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 heard | punct |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 sound | det |
| 10 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 heard | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | like | like | ADP | _ | 12 thunder | case |
| 12 | thunder | thunder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sound | nmod |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 heard | aux:pass |
| 14 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 flew | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 palace | punct |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 palace | det |
| 17 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 heard | conj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 vanished | cc |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 monsters | det |
| 20 | monsters | monster | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 vanished | nsubj |
| 21 | vanished | vanish | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 flew | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 moment | punct |
| 23 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 28 moment | mark |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 moment | punct |
| 25 | at | at | ADP | _ | 28 moment | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 moment | det |
| 27 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 moment | amod |
| 28 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 vanished | obl |
| 29 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 32 knew | punct |
| 30 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 31 one | det |
| 31 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 knew | nsubj |
| 32 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 moment | acl:relcl |
| 33 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 37 found | advmod |
| 34 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 33 how | punct |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 king | det |
| 36 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 found | nsubj |
| 37 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 knew | advcl |
| 38 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 37 found | obj |
| 39 | standing | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 37 found | xcomp |
| 40 | with | with | ADP | _ | 42 wife | case |
| 41 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 42 wife | nmod:poss |
| 42 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 standing | obl |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 daughter | cc |
| 44 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 wife | conj |
| 45 | in | in | ADP | _ | 47 hall | case |
| 46 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 47 hall | det |
| 47 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 standing | obl |
| 48 | of | of | ADP | _ | 51 home | case |
| 49 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 51 home | nmod:poss |
| 50 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 51 home | amod |
| 51 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 hall | nmod |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 flew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly away | past | the horrible creatures | length | away property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at length=Location | |||
| 2 | hear | past · passive | a sound like thunder | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | vanish | past | the monsters | moment | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | know | past | no one | the same moment not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer moment=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | find | past | the king | king | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent himself=Attribute clause=Theme | ||||
| 6 | stand | gerund | king not said here | the hall of king's own home | with king's wife and daughter | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in hall=Location |
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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