The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 3, sentence 48
Why, his own city, which by now he was entering, seemed changed and strange to him!
Who acts: own city · What happens: enter, change · To what, where: own city
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 (own city), 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 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 changed | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 city | punct |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 city | nmod:poss |
| 4 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 city | amod |
| 5 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 changed | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 entering | punct |
| 7 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 entering | nsubj |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 now | case |
| 9 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 entering | advmod |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 entering | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 entering | aux |
| 12 | entering | enter | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 city | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 city | punct |
| 14 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 changed | aux:pass |
| 15 | changed | change | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 strange | cc |
| 17 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 changed | conj |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 him | case |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 strange | obl |
| 20 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 15 changed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enter | past · progressive | King's own city | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | change | past · passive | King's own city | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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