The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 3, sentence 57
Then the king on the throne called him to come forward, and, as he went, he caught sight of himself reflected in the polished steel shield of the bodyguard, and started back in horror!
Who acts: king · What happens: call, come forward, go, catch, reflect, polish · To what, where: chamberlain, sight, polished steel shield, horror, King · 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 (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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 called | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 king | det |
| 3 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 called | nsubj |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 throne | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 throne | det |
| 6 | throne | throne | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 king | nmod |
| 7 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 called | obj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 come | mark |
| 10 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 called | xcomp |
| 11 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 10 come | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 caught | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 caught | cc |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 and | punct |
| 15 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 17 went | mark |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 went | nsubj |
| 17 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 caught | advcl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 went | punct |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 caught | nsubj |
| 20 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 called | parataxis |
| 21 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 caught | obj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 himself | case |
| 23 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 21 sight | nmod |
| 24 | reflected | reflect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 sight | acl |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 shield | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 shield | det |
| 27 | polished | polish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 29 shield | amod |
| 28 | steel | steel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 shield | compound |
| 29 | shield | shield | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 reflected | obl |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 bodyguard | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 bodyguard | det |
| 32 | bodyguard | bodyguard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 shield | nmod |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 started | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 started | cc |
| 35 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 caught | conj |
| 36 | back | back | ADV | _ | 35 started | advmod |
| 37 | in | in | ADP | _ | 38 horror | case |
| 38 | horror | horror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 started | obl |
| 39 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 7 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call speech: assert | past | the king on the throne | chamberlain | then | tree rules | |||
| 2 | come forward | to-infinitive | the king on the throne not said here | forward property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | go | past | King | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | catch | past | King | sight of King | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sight=Theme | ||||
| 5 | reflect | participle | sight of King not said here | the polished steel shield of the bodyguard | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | polish | participle | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 7 | start back | past | King not said here | horror | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 8 | sight | King | nom sight «cognition transitive»: 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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