The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 33, sentence 101
Soon--no one knew how--the news spread abroad that the Bird of Truth was hovering round the palace, and the courtiers made all sorts of preparations to hinder her reaching the king.
Who acts: one, news, Bird, courtiers, sorts · What happens: know, spread, hover, make, hinder, reach · To what, where: sorts, news, king, preparations
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 (one, news, Bird, courtiers), 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 | Soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 knew | advmod |
| 2 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 1 Soon | punct |
| 3 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 4 one | det |
| 4 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 knew | nsubj |
| 5 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 knew | advmod |
| 7 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 10 spread | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 news | det |
| 9 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 spread | nsubj |
| 10 | spread | spread | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 knew | conj |
| 11 | abroad | abroad | ADV | _ | 10 spread | advmod |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 hovering | mark |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Bird | det |
| 14 | Bird | Bird | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 hovering | nsubj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 Truth | case |
| 16 | Truth | Truth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Bird | nmod |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 hovering | aux |
| 18 | hovering | hover | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 spread | advcl |
| 19 | round | round | ADP | _ | 21 palace | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 palace | det |
| 21 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 hovering | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 made | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 made | cc |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 courtiers | det |
| 25 | courtiers | courtier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 made | nsubj |
| 26 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 knew | conj |
| 27 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 28 sorts | det |
| 28 | sorts | sort | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 made | obj |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 preparations | case |
| 30 | preparations | preparation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 sorts | nmod |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 hinder | mark |
| 32 | hinder | hinder | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 made | xcomp |
| 33 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 hinder | obj |
| 34 | reaching | reach | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 32 hinder | advcl |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 king | det |
| 36 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 reaching | obj |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 knew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | past | no one | soon property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | spread | past | the news | abroad property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | hover | past · progressive | the Bird of Truth | round the palace | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | make | past | the courtiers | all sorts of preparations | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | hinder | to-infinitive | all sorts of preparations not said here | news | vn discourage-64.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer she=Eventuality | ||||
| 6 | reach | gerund | all sorts of preparations not said here | the king | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent king=Theme | ||||
| 7 | sort | preparations | nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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