The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 31, sentence 109
'I have heard--it is whispered at court--that your majesty desires to know where she lies in hiding.'
Who acts: I, majesty · What happens: hear, whisper, desire, know, lie, hide · To what, where: head, court · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, majesty), 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 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 heard | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 heard | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 heard | aux |
| 4 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 8 whispered | punct |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 whispered | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 whispered | aux:pass |
| 8 | whispered | whisper | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 heard | conj |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 court | case |
| 10 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 whispered | obl |
| 11 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 15 desires | punct |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 desires | mark |
| 13 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 majesty | nmod:poss |
| 14 | majesty | majesty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 desires | nsubj |
| 15 | desires | desire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 whispered | conj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 know | mark |
| 17 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 desires | xcomp |
| 18 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 20 lies | advmod |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 lies | nsubj |
| 20 | lies | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 know | ccomp |
| 21 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 22 hiding | mark |
| 22 | hiding | hide | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 lies | advcl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 heard | punct |
| 24 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | present · perfect | I | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | whisper speech: assert | present · passive | head | court | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | ||||
| 3 | desire | present | your majesty | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | know not said to happen | to-infinitive | your majesty not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | lie | present | majesty | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | hide | gerund | majesty not said here | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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