The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 29, sentence 7
Some stationed themselves round the floating palace, some sat by the door, while the smallest and lightest perched themselves on the roof.
Who acts: Some · What happens: station, float, sit, perch · To what, where: dominions, floating palace, smallest, roof
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 (Some), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 stationed | nsubj |
| 2 | stationed | station | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 2 stationed | obj |
| 4 | round | round | ADP | _ | 7 palace | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 palace | det |
| 6 | floating | float | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 palace | amod |
| 7 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 stationed | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 sat | punct |
| 9 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 10 sat | nsubj |
| 10 | sat | sit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 palace | acl |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 door | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 door | det |
| 13 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sat | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 perched | punct |
| 15 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 20 perched | mark |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 perched | det |
| 17 | smallest | small | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 20 perched | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 lightest | cc |
| 19 | lightest | light | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 17 smallest | conj |
| 20 | perched | perch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 stationed | parataxis |
| 21 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 20 perched | obj |
| 22 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 roof | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 roof | det |
| 24 | roof | roof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 perched | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 stationed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | station | past | Some | dominions = dominion | round the floating palace | vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme | |||
| 2 | float | gerund | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | sit | participle | some | the floating palace not said here | by the door | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent palace=Theme by door=Location | |||
| 4 | perch | participle · passive | smallest | the roof | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme themselves=Destination |
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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