The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 29, sentence 41
And he sank down on a pile of cushions while his wife and daughter knelt beside him.
Who acts: prince, wife · What happens: sink down, kneel · To what, where: pile
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 (prince, 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 sank | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 sank | nsubj |
| 3 | sank | sink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | down | down | ADP | _ | 3 sank | compound:prt |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 pile | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 pile | det |
| 7 | pile | pile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sank | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 cushions | case |
| 9 | cushions | cushion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 pile | nmod |
| 10 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 15 knelt | mark |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 wife | nmod:poss |
| 12 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 knelt | nsubj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 daughter | cc |
| 14 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 wife | conj |
| 15 | knelt | kneel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sank | advcl |
| 16 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 17 him | case |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 knelt | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sank | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sink down | past | prince | a pile of cushions | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | kneel | past | prince's wife and daughter | beside prince | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent beside he=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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