The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 29, sentence 44
The dragon had been very busy for many years past, and had quite forgotten the princess till the news of her betrothal reached his ears.
Who acts: dragon · What happens: be, forget, reach, betroth · To what, where: princess, ears
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 (dragon), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 dragon | det |
| 2 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 busy | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 busy | aux |
| 4 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 busy | cop |
| 5 | very | very | ADV | _ | 6 busy | advmod |
| 6 | busy | busy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 years | case |
| 8 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 years | amod |
| 9 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 busy | obl |
| 10 | past | past | ADV | _ | 9 years | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 forgotten | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 forgotten | cc |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 forgotten | aux |
| 14 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 15 forgotten | advmod |
| 15 | forgotten | forget | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 busy | conj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 princess | det |
| 17 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 forgotten | obj |
| 18 | till | till | ADP | _ | 20 news | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 news | det |
| 20 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 reached | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 betrothal | case |
| 22 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 betrothal | nmod:poss |
| 23 | betrothal | betrothal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 news | nmod |
| 24 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 forgotten | advcl |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 ears | nmod:poss |
| 26 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 reached | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 busy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past · perfect | the dragon | year | busy property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | forget | past · perfect | the dragon not said here | the princess | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | reach | past | the dragon not said here | prince's ears | till the news of dragon's betrothal | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent ear=Theme | |||
| 4 | betroth | dragon | nom betrothal «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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