The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 3, sentence 40
No one knows what was there shown to the king, nor did he ever tell anyone; but, when the fakeer at length dropped the curtain, and the king turned to leave the place, he had had his glimpse of Paradise!
Who acts: one, King, fakeer · What happens: know, show, tell, drop, turn, leave · To what, where: king, anyone, curtain, place, glimpse, Paradise · 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 (one, 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 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 one | det |
| 2 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 knows | nsubj |
| 3 | knows | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 shown | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 shown | aux:pass |
| 6 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 shown | advmod |
| 7 | shown | show | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 knows | ccomp |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 king | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 king | det |
| 10 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 shown | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 tell | punct |
| 12 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 16 tell | cc |
| 13 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 tell | aux |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 tell | nsubj |
| 15 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 16 tell | advmod |
| 16 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 knows | conj |
| 17 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 16 tell | obj |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 dropped | punct |
| 19 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 26 dropped | cc |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 dropped | punct |
| 21 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 26 dropped | advmod |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 fakeer | det |
| 23 | fakeer | fakeer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 dropped | nsubj |
| 24 | at | at | ADP | _ | 25 length | case |
| 25 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 fakeer | nmod |
| 26 | dropped | drop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 knows | parataxis |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 curtain | det |
| 28 | curtain | curtain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 dropped | obj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 turned | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 turned | cc |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 king | det |
| 32 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 turned | nsubj |
| 33 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 dropped | conj |
| 34 | to | to | PART | _ | 35 leave | mark |
| 35 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 turned | xcomp |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 place | det |
| 37 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 leave | obj |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 had | punct |
| 39 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 had | nsubj |
| 40 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 41 had | aux |
| 41 | had | have | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 knows | conj |
| 42 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 43 glimpse | nmod:poss |
| 43 | glimpse | glimpse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 had | obj |
| 44 | of | of | ADP | _ | 45 Paradise | case |
| 45 | Paradise | paradise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 glimpse | nmod |
| 46 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 knows | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present | no one | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | show | past · passive | the king | there | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Topic to king=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | past · do-support | King | anyone | ever | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent anyone=Recipient | |||
| 4 | drop | past | the fakeer at length | the curtain | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent curtain=Theme | ||||
| 5 | turn | past | the king | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | leave | to-infinitive | the king not said here | the place | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Theme | ||||
| 7 | have | past · perfect | fakeer | fakeer's glimpse of Paradise | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent glimpse=Patient | ||||
| 8 | glimpse | fakeer | Paradise | nom glimpse «act transitive»: poss=agent of=patient |
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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