The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 33, sentence 104
As often happens in these cases, the courtiers brought about that which they feared.
Who acts: courtiers · What happens: happen, bring, fear · To what, where: cases, that
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 (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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 3 happens | mark |
| 2 | often | often | ADV | _ | 3 happens | advmod |
| 3 | happens | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 brought | advcl |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 cases | case |
| 5 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 6 cases | det |
| 6 | cases | case | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 happens | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 happens | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 courtiers | det |
| 9 | courtiers | courtier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 brought | nsubj |
| 10 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | about | about | ADP | _ | 12 that | case |
| 12 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 brought | obj |
| 13 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 feared | obj |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 feared | nsubj |
| 15 | feared | fear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 that | acl:relcl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 brought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | present | the courtiers not said here | this cases | often property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in case=Location | |||
| 2 | bring | past | the courtiers | that | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent that=Theme | ||||
| 3 | fear | past | courtiers = courtier | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer which=Stimulus |
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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