The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 3, sentence 51
The poor king, all bewildered, sat down and stared about him.
Who acts: poor king · What happens: bewilder, sit down, stare · To what, where: all
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 (poor 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 king | det |
| 2 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 king | amod |
| 3 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sat | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 bewildered | punct |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 bewildered | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | bewildered | bewilder | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 king | acl:relcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 sat | punct |
| 8 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | down | down | ADP | _ | 8 sat | compound:prt |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 stared | cc |
| 11 | stared | stare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 sat | conj |
| 12 | about | about | ADP | _ | 13 him | case |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 stared | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bewilder | participle · passive | the poor king not said here | all | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | sit down | past | the poor king | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | stare | past | the poor king not said here | about King | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent about he=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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