The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 3, sentence 61
He dragged it off with shaking fingers and held it up to the king.
Who acts: King · What happens: drag off, hold up · To what, where: royalty
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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 dragged | nsubj |
| 2 | dragged | drag | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 dragged | obj |
| 4 | off | off | ADP | _ | 2 dragged | compound:prt |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 fingers | case |
| 6 | shaking | shaking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 fingers | compound |
| 7 | fingers | finger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 dragged | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 held | cc |
| 9 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 dragged | conj |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 held | obj |
| 11 | up | up | ADP | _ | 9 held | compound:prt |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 king | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 king | det |
| 14 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 held | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 dragged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drag off | past | King | royalty | with shaking fingers | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 2 | hold up | past | King not said here | royalty | to the king | vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot it=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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