The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 32, sentence 73
Well pleased with all he had done, Jose returned to the palace; but when the king took the precious objects to Bella-Flor, she declared that she would never open her door till the bandit who had carried her off had been fried in oil.
Who acts: deal, Jose, king, Flor · What happens: do, return, take, declare, not open, carry off · To what, where: precious objects, Bella, door, bandit
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 (deal, Jose, king, Flor), 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 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 2 pleased | discourse |
| 2 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 4 all | case |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 pleased | obl |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 done | nsubj |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 done | aux |
| 7 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 all | acl:relcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 returned | punct |
| 9 | Jose | Jose | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 returned | nsubj |
| 10 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 pleased | conj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 palace | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 palace | det |
| 13 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 returned | obl |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 declared | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 29 declared | cc |
| 16 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 19 took | advmod |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 king | det |
| 18 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 took | nsubj |
| 19 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 declared | advcl |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 objects | det |
| 21 | precious | precious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 objects | amod |
| 22 | objects | object | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 took | obj |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 Bella | case |
| 24 | Bella | Bella | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 took | obl |
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 Flor | punct |
| 26 | Flor | Flor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Bella | conj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 took | punct |
| 28 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 declared | nsubj |
| 29 | declared | declare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 pleased | conj |
| 30 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 34 open | mark |
| 31 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 open | nsubj |
| 32 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 34 open | aux |
| 33 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 34 open | advmod |
| 34 | open | open | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 declared | advcl |
| 35 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 door | nmod:poss |
| 36 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 open | obj |
| 37 | till | till | ADP | _ | 39 bandit | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 bandit | det |
| 39 | bandit | bandit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 open | obl |
| 40 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 42 carried | nsubj:pass |
| 41 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 42 carried | aux |
| 42 | carried | carry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 39 bandit | acl:relcl |
| 43 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 carried | obj |
| 44 | off | off | ADP | _ | 42 carried | compound:prt |
| 45 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 47 fried | aux |
| 46 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 47 fried | aux:pass |
| 47 | fried | fry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 42 carried | conj |
| 48 | in | in | ADP | _ | 49 oil | case |
| 49 | oil | oil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 fried | obl |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 pleased | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past · perfect | deal | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | return | past | Jose | to the palace result | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to palace=Result | ||||
| 3 | take | past | the king | the precious objects | Bella and Flor | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent object=Theme to bella=Destination | |||
| 4 | declare speech: other | past | Flor | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | not open | would | Flor | Flor's door | till the bandit | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=Theme | |||
| 6 | carry off | past · perfect · passive | the bandit | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary she=Value | |||||
| 7 | fry | past · perfect · passive | in oil | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V PP.result PP.instrument»: in oil=Instrument |
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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