The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 29, sentence 8
Of course the king was quite ignorant of these arrangements, and boldly entered the palace of the Lion Fairy, who was waiting for him, with her tail lashing furiously, for she still kept her lion's shape.
Who acts: palace, tail, smallest · What happens: be, enter, wait, lash, keep · To what, where: palace, shape
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 (palace, tail, smallest), 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 | Of | of | ADP | _ | 4 king | case |
| 2 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Of | fixed |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 king | det |
| 4 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 ignorant | obl |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 ignorant | cop |
| 6 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 7 ignorant | advmod |
| 7 | ignorant | ignorant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 arrangements | case |
| 9 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 10 arrangements | det |
| 10 | arrangements | arrangement | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 ignorant | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 entered | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 entered | cc |
| 13 | boldly | boldly | ADV | Degree=Pos | 14 entered | advmod |
| 14 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 ignorant | parataxis |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 palace | det |
| 16 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 entered | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 Fairy | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Fairy | det |
| 19 | Lion | Lion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Fairy | compound |
| 20 | Fairy | Fairy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 palace | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 waiting | punct |
| 22 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 waiting | nsubj |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 waiting | aux |
| 24 | waiting | wait | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 palace | acl |
| 25 | for | for | ADP | _ | 26 him | case |
| 26 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 waiting | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 tail | punct |
| 28 | with | with | ADP | _ | 30 tail | case |
| 29 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 tail | nmod:poss |
| 30 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 waiting | obl |
| 31 | lashing | lash | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 30 tail | acl |
| 32 | furiously | furiously | ADV | _ | 31 lashing | advmod |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 kept | punct |
| 34 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 37 kept | mark |
| 35 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 kept | nsubj |
| 36 | still | still | ADV | _ | 37 kept | advmod |
| 37 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 entered | conj |
| 38 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 lion | nmod:poss |
| 39 | lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 shape | nmod:poss |
| 40 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 39 lion | case |
| 41 | shape | shape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 kept | obj |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 ignorant | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | of the king; of this arrangements; ignorant property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | enter | past | the palace of the Lion Fairy | boldly property | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme palace=Destination | ||||
| 3 | wait | past · progressive | the palace of the Lion Fairy | for king; with smallest's tail | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | lash | gerund | smallest's tail not said here | furiously property | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 5 | keep | past | smallest = small | smallest's lion's shape | still | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shape=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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