The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 3, sentence 30
Instantly he hurried off himself, and found that it was really true, and that the fakeer was even then breathing his last.
Who acts: King, power, fakeer · What happens: hurry off, find, be, breathe · To what, where: King, last · Speech: someone speaks here
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, power, 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 | Instantly | instantly | ADV | _ | 3 hurried | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 hurried | nsubj |
| 3 | hurried | hurry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | off | off | ADP | _ | 3 hurried | compound:prt |
| 5 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 3 hurried | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 found | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 found | cc |
| 8 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 hurried | conj |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 true | mark |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 true | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 true | cop |
| 12 | really | really | ADV | _ | 13 true | advmod |
| 13 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 found | ccomp |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 breathing | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 breathing | cc |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 breathing | mark |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 fakeer | det |
| 18 | fakeer | fakeer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 breathing | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 breathing | aux |
| 20 | even | even | ADV | _ | 21 then | advmod |
| 21 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 22 breathing | advmod |
| 22 | breathing | breathe | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 hurried | advcl |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 last | nmod:poss |
| 24 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 breathing | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 hurried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hurry off | past | King | King | instantly property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | find | past | King not said here | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | past | power | true property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | breathe | past · progressive | the fakeer | King's last | then | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent last=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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