The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 29, sentence 47
No words would paint the horror of both the queen and the princess as they listened to this dreadful doom.
Who acts: words · What happens: paint, listen · To what, where: horror
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 (words), 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 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 words | det |
| 2 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 paint | nsubj |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 paint | aux |
| 4 | paint | paint | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 horror | det |
| 6 | horror | horror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 paint | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 queen | case |
| 8 | both | both | CCONJ | _ | 10 queen | cc:preconj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 queen | det |
| 10 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 horror | nmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 princess | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 princess | det |
| 13 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 queen | conj |
| 14 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 16 listened | mark |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 listened | nsubj |
| 16 | listened | listen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 paint | advcl |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 doom | case |
| 18 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 20 doom | det |
| 19 | dreadful | dreadful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 doom | amod |
| 20 | doom | doom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 listened | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 paint | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | paint | would | no words | the horror of the queen and the princess | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent horror=Destination | ||||
| 2 | listen | past | words = word | to this dreadful doom | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to doom=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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