The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 3, sentence 52
Presently a chamberlain came across and asked him why he sat unbidden in the king's presence. '
Who acts: chamberlain · What happens: come, ask, sit · To what, where: chamberlain, presence
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 (chamberlain), 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 | Presently | presently | ADV | _ | 4 came | advmod |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 chamberlain | det |
| 3 | chamberlain | chamberlain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | across | across | ADV | _ | 4 came | advmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 asked | cc |
| 7 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 came | conj |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 asked | iobj |
| 9 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 sat | advmod |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 sat | nsubj |
| 11 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 asked | advcl |
| 12 | unbidden | unbidden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 sat | xcomp |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 presence | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 king | det |
| 15 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 presence | nmod:poss |
| 16 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 15 king | case |
| 17 | presence | presence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sat | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
| 19 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | a chamberlain | across, presently property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | a chamberlain not said here | chamberlain | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | sit | past | chamberlain | the king's presence | unbidden property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in presence=Location |
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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