The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 33, sentence 111
Alighting on the pillow, close to the king's head, she bowed respectfully, and said:
Who acts: stronger · What happens: alight, bow, say · To what, where: pillow · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (stronger), 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 | Alighting | alight | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 bowed | advcl |
| 2 | on | on | ADP | _ | 4 pillow | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 pillow | det |
| 4 | pillow | pillow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Alighting | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 close | punct |
| 6 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 pillow | amod |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 head | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 king | det |
| 9 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 head | nmod:poss |
| 10 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 9 king | case |
| 11 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 close | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Alighting | punct |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 bowed | nsubj |
| 14 | bowed | bow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 said | advcl |
| 15 | respectfully | respectfully | ADV | _ | 14 bowed | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 said | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 said | cc |
| 18 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 18 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | alight | gerund | stronger = strong not said here | the pillow | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | bow | past | stronger = strong | respectfully property | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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.
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