The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 33, sentence 105
They talked so much about the Bird of Truth that at last the king heard of it, and expressed a wish to see her.
Who acts: courtiers, last king · What happens: talk, hear, express, see · To what, where: that, wish, news
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, last king), 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 talked | nsubj |
| 2 | talked | talk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | so | so | ADV | _ | 4 much | advmod |
| 4 | much | much | ADV | _ | 2 talked | advmod |
| 5 | about | about | ADP | _ | 7 Bird | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Bird | det |
| 7 | Bird | Bird | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 talked | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 Truth | case |
| 9 | Truth | Truth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Bird | nmod |
| 10 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 heard | obj |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 king | case |
| 12 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 king | amod |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 king | det |
| 14 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 heard | nsubj |
| 15 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 talked | conj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 it | case |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 heard | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 expressed | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 expressed | cc |
| 20 | expressed | express | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 talked | conj |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 wish | det |
| 22 | wish | wish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 expressed | obj |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 see | mark |
| 24 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 expressed | advcl |
| 25 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 see | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 talked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | talk | past | courtiers = courtier | about the Bird of Truth | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about bird=Topic | ||||
| 2 | hear | past | the last king | that | of word | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | express | past | courtiers = courtier not said here | a wish | vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wish=Theme | ||||
| 4 | see | to-infinitive | courtiers = courtier not said here | news | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=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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