The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 31, sentence 123
He was about to mount on his back, when the animal spoke again:
Who acts: king, animal · What happens: be, mount, speak · To what, where: back · 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 (king, animal), 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 | 3 about | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 about | cop |
| 3 | about | about | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 mount | mark |
| 5 | mount | mount | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 about | xcomp |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 back | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 back | nmod:poss |
| 8 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 mount | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 spoke | punct |
| 10 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 spoke | advmod |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 animal | det |
| 12 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 spoke | nsubj |
| 13 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 about | parataxis |
| 14 | again | again | ADV | _ | 13 spoke | advmod |
| 15 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 3 about | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | king | about property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | mount | to-infinitive | king not said here | king's back | vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on back=Destination | ||||
| 3 | speak speech: other | past | the animal | again | vn talk-37.5 «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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