The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 3, sentence 29
After a year or two had passed by, the king heard one day that the fakeer was very ill-- indeed, he was believed to be dying.
Who acts: king, fakeer · What happens: pass by, hear, be, believe, die · To what, where: fakeer
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 (king, fakeer), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 3 year | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 year | det |
| 3 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 passed | obl |
| 4 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 5 two | cc |
| 5 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 year | conj |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 passed | aux |
| 7 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 passed | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 heard | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 king | det |
| 11 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 heard | nsubj |
| 12 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 passed | conj |
| 13 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 day | nummod |
| 14 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 heard | obl:unmarked |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 ill | mark |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 fakeer | det |
| 17 | fakeer | fakeer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 ill | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 ill | cop |
| 19 | very | very | ADV | _ | 20 ill | advmod |
| 20 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 heard | advcl |
| 21 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 20 ill | punct |
| 22 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 20 ill | advmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 believed | punct |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 believed | nsubj |
| 25 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 believed | aux:pass |
| 26 | believed | believe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 passed | advcl |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 dying | mark |
| 28 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 29 dying | aux |
| 29 | dying | die | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 26 believed | advcl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass by | past · perfect | year | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | hear | past | the king | day | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | is | past | the fakeer | ill, indeed property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | believe | past · passive | fakeer | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | die | to-infinitive · progressive | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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