The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 3, sentence 34
Still the king's curiosity was so aroused that he would not give way.
Who acts: King · What happens: arouse, not give · To what, where: curiosity, way
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), 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 | Still | still | ADV | _ | 8 aroused | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 king | det |
| 3 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 curiosity | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 king | case |
| 5 | curiosity | curiosity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 aroused | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 aroused | aux:pass |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 8 aroused | advmod |
| 8 | aroused | arouse | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 give | mark |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 give | nsubj |
| 11 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 give | aux |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 give | advmod |
| 13 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 aroused | advcl |
| 14 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 give | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 aroused | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arouse | past · passive | the king's curiosity | still | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | not give | would | King | way | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=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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