The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 29, sentence 58
The next morning Muffette was put into a litter, and, guarded by the giant and followed by the king and queen and the weeping maids of honour, they started for the foot of the mountain where the dragon had his castle.
Who acts: tears, dragon · What happens: put, guard, follow, start, have · To what, where: next morning, litter, castle
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 (tears, 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 | 3 morning | det |
| 2 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 morning | amod |
| 3 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 put | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | Muffette | Muffette | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 morning | appos |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 put | aux:pass |
| 6 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | into | into | ADP | _ | 9 litter | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 litter | det |
| 9 | litter | litter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 put | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 guarded | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 guarded | cc |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 guarded | punct |
| 13 | guarded | guard | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 put | conj |
| 14 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 16 giant | mark |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 giant | det |
| 16 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 guarded | xcomp |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 followed | cc |
| 18 | followed | follow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 guarded | conj |
| 19 | by | by | ADP | _ | 21 king | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 king | det |
| 21 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 followed | obl |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 queen | cc |
| 23 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 king | conj |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 maids | cc |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 maids | det |
| 26 | weeping | weeping | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 maids | compound |
| 27 | maids | maid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 king | conj |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 honour | case |
| 29 | honour | honour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 maids | nmod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 started | punct |
| 31 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 started | nsubj |
| 32 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 put | conj |
| 33 | for | for | ADP | _ | 35 foot | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 foot | det |
| 35 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 started | obl |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 mountain | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 mountain | det |
| 38 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 foot | nmod |
| 39 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 42 had | advmod |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 dragon | det |
| 41 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 had | nsubj |
| 42 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 mountain | acl:relcl |
| 43 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 44 castle | nmod:poss |
| 44 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 had | obj |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | past · passive | the next morning | a litter | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: subject=Goal | ||||
| 2 | guard | participle | giant property | vn defend-72.3 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | follow | participle | by the king and queen and the weeping maids of honour | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by king=Location | |||||
| 4 | start | past | tears = tear | for the foot of the mountain | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | have | past | the dragon | king's castle | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent castle=Patient |
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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