The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 3, sentence 20
Story of the King Who Would See Paradise
Who acts: Story · What happens: see · To what, where: Paradise
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Story), 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 | Story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 King | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 King | det |
| 4 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Story | nmod |
| 5 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 See | nsubj |
| 6 | Would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 See | aux |
| 7 | See | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Story | acl:relcl |
| 8 | Paradise | paradise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 See | obj |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | would | Story of the King | Paradise | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer paradise=Stimulus |
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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