The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 33, sentence 103
They declared that her white plumage was really put on to hide her black feathers--in fact there was nothing they did not do in order to prevent the king from seeing the bird or from paying attention to her words if he did.
Who acts: birds, nothing, king, news · What happens: declare, put on, hide, be, not do, prevent · To what, where: white plumage, black feathers, fact, order, king, bird
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 (birds, nothing, king, news), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 declared | nsubj |
| 2 | declared | declare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 put | mark |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 plumage | nmod:poss |
| 5 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 plumage | amod |
| 6 | plumage | plumage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 put | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 put | aux:pass |
| 8 | really | really | ADV | _ | 9 put | advmod |
| 9 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 declared | advcl |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 put | compound:prt |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 hide | mark |
| 12 | hide | hide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 put | advcl |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 feathers | nmod:poss |
| 14 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 feathers | amod |
| 15 | feathers | feather | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 hide | obj |
| 16 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 20 was | punct |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 fact | case |
| 18 | fact | fact | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 was | obl |
| 19 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 20 was | expl |
| 20 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 declared | parataxis |
| 21 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 20 was | nsubj |
| 22 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 do | nsubj |
| 23 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 do | aux |
| 24 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 25 do | advmod |
| 25 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 nothing | acl:relcl |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 order | case |
| 27 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 do | obl |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 prevent | mark |
| 29 | prevent | prevent | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 do | advcl |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 king | det |
| 31 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 prevent | obj |
| 32 | from | from | SCONJ | _ | 33 seeing | mark |
| 33 | seeing | see | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 29 prevent | advcl |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 bird | det |
| 35 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 seeing | obj |
| 36 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 38 paying | cc |
| 37 | from | from | SCONJ | _ | 38 paying | mark |
| 38 | paying | pay | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 33 seeing | conj |
| 39 | attention | attention | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 paying | obj |
| 40 | to | to | ADP | _ | 42 words | case |
| 41 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 42 words | nmod:poss |
| 42 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 paying | obl |
| 43 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 45 did | mark |
| 44 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 45 did | nsubj |
| 45 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 paying | advcl |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 declared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | declare speech: other | past | birds = bird | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | put on | past · passive | news's white plumage | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: subject=Goal | |||||
| 3 | hide | to-infinitive | news's black feathers | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feather=Patient | |||||
| 4 | be | past | nothing | fact; there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in fact=Location | ||||
| 5 | not do | past · do-support | birds = bird | order | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | prevent | to-infinitive | birds = bird not said here | the king | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer king=Theme | ||||
| 7 | see | gerund | birds = bird not said here | the bird | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bird=Stimulus | ||||
| 8 | pay | gerund | birds = bird not said here | attention | to news's words | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attention=Asset | |||
| 9 | do a condition, not said to happen | past | king | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 10 | word | news | nom word «communication 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/pg3027/33/103/