The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 31, sentence 95
At first he was only a servant, who carried the king the water for his bath, and saw that his bed was made in a particular fashion.
Who acts: husband · What happens: be, carry, see, make · To what, where: servant, king, bed, particular fashion · 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 (husband), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 7 servant | case |
| 2 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 7 servant | advmod |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 servant | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 servant | cop |
| 5 | only | only | ADV | _ | 7 servant | advmod |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 servant | det |
| 7 | servant | servant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 carried | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 carried | punct |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 carried | nsubj |
| 10 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 king | det |
| 12 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 carried | obj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 water | det |
| 14 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 carried | obj |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 bath | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 bath | nmod:poss |
| 17 | bath | bath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 carried | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 saw | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 saw | cc |
| 20 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 carried | conj |
| 21 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 25 made | mark |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 bed | nmod:poss |
| 23 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 made | nsubj:pass |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 made | aux:pass |
| 25 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 saw | ccomp |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 fashion | case |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 fashion | det |
| 28 | particular | particular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 fashion | amod |
| 29 | fashion | fashion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 made | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 carried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | husband | a servant | first property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | carry | past | the king | for husband's bath | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Theme king=Beneficiary water=Value | ||||
| 3 | see | past | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||||
| 4 | make | past · passive | husband's bed | a particular fashion | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
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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