The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 31, sentence 121
Jose still felt so bewildered with the mission that the king had given him that he forgot to be astonished at hearing a horse talk.
Who acts: Jose, king · What happens: feel, bewilder, give, forget, not be, hear · To what, where: Jose, horse talk
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 (Jose, 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 | Jose | Jose | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 felt | nsubj |
| 2 | still | still | ADV | _ | 3 felt | advmod |
| 3 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 bewildered | advmod |
| 5 | bewildered | bewilder | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 felt | xcomp |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 mission | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 mission | det |
| 8 | mission | mission | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 bewildered | obl |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 given | mark |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 king | det |
| 11 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 given | nsubj |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 given | aux |
| 13 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 bewildered | advcl |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 given | iobj |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 forgot | mark |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 forgot | nsubj |
| 17 | forgot | forget | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 given | advcl |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 astonished | mark |
| 19 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 astonished | cop |
| 20 | astonished | astonished | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 forgot | xcomp |
| 21 | at | at | SCONJ | _ | 22 hearing | mark |
| 22 | hearing | hear | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 astonished | advcl |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 talk | det |
| 24 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 talk | compound |
| 25 | talk | talk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 hearing | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 felt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | past | Jose | still | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | bewilder | participle | Jose not said here | with the mission | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | give | past · perfect | the king | Jose | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 4 | forget | past | Jose | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | not is | to-infinitive | Jose not said here | astonished property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | hear | gerund | Jose not said here | a horse talk | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer talk=Stimulus |
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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