The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 29, sentence 65
Entering a room where the prince was sitting gazing at the portrait of his betrothed, she cried to him:
Who acts: prince, frog · What happens: enter, sit, gaze, betroth, cry · To what, where: room, prince
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, frog), 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 | Entering | enter | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 sitting | csubj |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 room | det |
| 3 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Entering | obj |
| 4 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 8 sitting | advmod |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 prince | det |
| 6 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sitting | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 sitting | aux |
| 8 | sitting | sit | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 9 | gazing | gaze | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 sitting | advcl |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 portrait | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 portrait | det |
| 12 | portrait | portrait | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 gazing | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 his | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 portrait | acl:relcl |
| 15 | betrothed | betroth | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 his | xcomp |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 cried | punct |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 cried | nsubj |
| 18 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 betrothed | conj |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 him | case |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 cried | obl |
| 21 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 sitting | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enter | gerund | a room | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme room=Destination | |||||
| 2 | sit | past · progressive | the prince | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | gaze | gerund | the prince not said here | at the portrait | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at portrait=Theme | ||||
| 4 | betroth | participle | the prince not said here | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | cry speech: express | past | frog | prince | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient |
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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