The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 29, sentence 43
There had just arrived at court a huge giant, as ambassador from the dragon by whose help the king had rescued the queen and Muffette from the crystal palace.
Who acts: help · What happens: arrive, rescue · To what, where: huge giant, court, king
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 (help), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 4 arrived | expl |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 arrived | aux |
| 3 | just | just | ADV | _ | 4 arrived | advmod |
| 4 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 court | case |
| 6 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 arrived | obl |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 giant | det |
| 8 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 giant | amod |
| 9 | giant | giant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 arrived | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 ambassador | punct |
| 11 | as | as | ADP | _ | 12 ambassador | case |
| 12 | ambassador | ambassador | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 arrived | conj |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 dragon | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 dragon | det |
| 15 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 ambassador | nmod |
| 16 | by | by | ADP | _ | 18 help | case |
| 17 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 18 help | nmod:poss |
| 18 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 rescued | obl |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 king | det |
| 20 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 rescued | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 rescued | aux |
| 22 | rescued | rescue | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 arrived | conj |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 queen | det |
| 24 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 rescued | obj |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 Muffette | cc |
| 26 | Muffette | Muffette | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 queen | appos |
| 27 | from | from | ADP | _ | 30 palace | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 palace | det |
| 29 | crystal | crystal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 palace | amod |
| 30 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 Muffette | nmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 arrived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arrive | past · perfect | a huge giant | court; there | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | rescue | past · perfect · passive | help | the king | tree rules |
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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