The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 33, sentence 110
They were still talking, when, suddenly, the bird settled the question by flying upwards through an open window into the king's own room.
Who acts: courtiers, bird · What happens: talk, settle, fly · To what, where: question, open window
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, bird), 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 | 4 talking | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 talking | aux |
| 3 | still | still | ADV | _ | 4 talking | advmod |
| 4 | talking | talk | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 when | punct |
| 6 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 talking | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 settled | punct |
| 8 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 12 settled | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 settled | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 bird | det |
| 11 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 settled | nsubj |
| 12 | settled | settle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 talking | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 question | det |
| 14 | question | question | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 settled | obj |
| 15 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 16 flying | mark |
| 16 | flying | fly | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 settled | advcl |
| 17 | upwards | upwards | ADV | _ | 16 flying | advmod |
| 18 | through | through | ADP | _ | 21 window | case |
| 19 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 window | det |
| 20 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 window | amod |
| 21 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 flying | obl |
| 22 | into | into | ADP | _ | 27 room | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 king | det |
| 24 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 room | nmod:poss |
| 25 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 24 king | case |
| 26 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 room | amod |
| 27 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 flying | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 talking | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | talk | past · progressive | courtiers = courtier | still | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | settle | past | the bird | the question | suddenly property | vn odge-46-1 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme question=Location | |||
| 3 | fly | gerund | the bird not said here | a open window | into the king's own room; upwards property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through window=Location |
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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