The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 33, sentence 100
But although the boy had accomplished much, something very difficult yet remained, and that was how to carry the Bird of Truth to the king without her being seized by the wicked courtiers, who would be ruined by the discovery of their plot.
Who acts: something, that, wicked courtiers, discovery, birds · What happens: accomplish, remain, be, seize, ruin, discover · To what, where: boy, wicked courtiers, plot
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (something, that, wicked courtiers, discovery), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 accomplished | cc |
| 2 | although | although | SCONJ | _ | 6 accomplished | mark |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 boy | det |
| 4 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 accomplished | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 accomplished | aux |
| 6 | accomplished | accomplish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | much | much | ADV | _ | 6 accomplished | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 something | punct |
| 9 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 6 accomplished | obl:agent |
| 10 | very | very | ADV | _ | 11 difficult | advmod |
| 11 | difficult | difficult | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 something | amod |
| 12 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 13 remained | advmod |
| 13 | remained | remain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 difficult | advcl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 carry | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 carry | cc |
| 16 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 20 carry | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 carry | cop |
| 18 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 20 carry | advmod |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 carry | mark |
| 20 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 accomplished | advcl |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Bird | det |
| 22 | Bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 carry | obj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 Truth | case |
| 24 | Truth | Truth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Bird | nmod |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 king | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 king | det |
| 27 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 carry | obl |
| 28 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 31 seized | mark |
| 29 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 seized | nmod:poss |
| 30 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 31 seized | aux:pass |
| 31 | seized | seize | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 carry | advcl |
| 32 | by | by | ADP | _ | 35 courtiers | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 courtiers | det |
| 34 | wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 courtiers | amod |
| 35 | courtiers | courtier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 seized | obl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 ruined | punct |
| 37 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 40 ruined | nsubj:pass |
| 38 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 40 ruined | aux |
| 39 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 40 ruined | aux:pass |
| 40 | ruined | ruin | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 35 courtiers | conj |
| 41 | by | by | ADP | _ | 43 discovery | case |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 discovery | det |
| 43 | discovery | discovery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 ruined | obl |
| 44 | of | of | ADP | _ | 46 plot | case |
| 45 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 46 plot | nmod:poss |
| 46 | plot | plot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 discovery | nmod |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 accomplished | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | accomplish | past · perfect · passive | something | the boy | vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | remain | participle | something not said here | yet | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | past | that | to the king; carry property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | seize | gerund · passive | the wicked courtiers | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | ruin | would · passive | the discovery of birds's plot | the wicked courtiers | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient | ||||
| 6 | discover | birds's plot | nom discovery «act transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 7 | plot | birds = bird | nom plot «cognition transitive»: poss=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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/33/100/