The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 33, sentence 14
Not many months later a war broke out, and the king rode away at the head of his army, while the queen remained behind, very unhappy at the separation.
Who acts: war, king, queen · What happens: break out, ride away, remain · To what, where: head
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 (war, king, queen), 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 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 2 many | advmod |
| 2 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 months | amod |
| 3 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 later | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 7 broke | advmod |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 war | det |
| 6 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 broke | nsubj |
| 7 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | out | out | ADP | _ | 7 broke | compound:prt |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 rode | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 rode | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 king | det |
| 12 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 rode | nsubj |
| 13 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 broke | conj |
| 14 | away | away | ADV | _ | 13 rode | advmod |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 head | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 head | det |
| 17 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 rode | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 army | case |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 army | nmod:poss |
| 20 | army | army | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 head | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 remained | punct |
| 22 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 25 remained | mark |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 queen | det |
| 24 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 remained | nsubj |
| 25 | remained | remain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 rode | conj |
| 26 | behind | behind | ADV | _ | 25 remained | advmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 unhappy | punct |
| 28 | very | very | ADV | _ | 29 unhappy | advmod |
| 29 | unhappy | unhappy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 remained | conj |
| 30 | at | at | ADP | _ | 32 separation | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 separation | det |
| 32 | separation | separation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 unhappy | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 broke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break out | past | a war | late property | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | ride away | past | the king | the head of king's army | away property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | remain | participle | the queen | behind property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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