The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 32, sentence 24
Jose did exactly as the horse told him, and everything fell out as the animal prophesied; so that it was not until they were galloping breathlessly towards the palace that the princess knew that she was taken captive.
Who acts: Jose, horse, everything, animal, princess · What happens: do, tell, fall out, prophesy, not gallop, know · To what, where: Jose, palace, princess · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Jose, horse, everything, 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 | Jose | Jose | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 did | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | exactly | exactly | ADV | _ | 2 did | advmod |
| 4 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 7 told | mark |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 horse | det |
| 6 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 told | nsubj |
| 7 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 did | advcl |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 told | iobj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 fell | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 fell | cc |
| 11 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 12 fell | nsubj |
| 12 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 told | conj |
| 13 | out | out | ADP | _ | 12 fell | compound:prt |
| 14 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 17 prophesied | mark |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 animal | det |
| 16 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 prophesied | nsubj |
| 17 | prophesied | prophesy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 fell | advcl |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 galloping | punct |
| 19 | so | so | SCONJ | _ | 27 galloping | advmod |
| 20 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 so | fixed |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 galloping | nsubj |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 galloping | aux |
| 23 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 27 galloping | advmod |
| 24 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 27 galloping | mark |
| 25 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 galloping | nsubj |
| 26 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 galloping | aux |
| 27 | galloping | gallop | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 did | advcl |
| 28 | breathlessly | breathlessly | ADV | _ | 27 galloping | advmod |
| 29 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 31 palace | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 palace | det |
| 31 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 galloping | obl |
| 32 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 35 knew | mark |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 princess | det |
| 34 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 knew | nsubj |
| 35 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 palace | acl:relcl |
| 36 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 39 taken | mark |
| 37 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 taken | nsubj |
| 38 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 taken | aux:pass |
| 39 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 35 knew | ccomp |
| 40 | captive | captive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 taken | xcomp |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | Jose | exactly property | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past | the horse | Jose | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | fall out | past | everything | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | prophesy | past | the animal | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | not gallop | past · progressive | animal | the palace | breathlessly property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme towards palace=Destination | |||
| 6 | know | past | the princess | the palace not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | take | past · passive | princess | captive property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Destination |
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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