The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 34, sentence 6
And the bird did explain; and the king heard for the first time of the wicked plot that had been successful for so many years.
Who acts: bird, king, wicked plot · What happens: explain, hear, be
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bird, king, wicked plot), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 explain | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 bird | det |
| 3 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 explain | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 explain | aux |
| 5 | explain | explain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 heard | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 heard | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 king | det |
| 9 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 heard | nsubj |
| 10 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 explain | parataxis |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 time | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 time | det |
| 13 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 14 time | amod |
| 14 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 heard | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 plot | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 plot | det |
| 17 | wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 plot | amod |
| 18 | plot | plot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 time | nmod |
| 19 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 successful | nsubj |
| 20 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 successful | aux |
| 21 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 22 successful | cop |
| 22 | successful | successful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 plot | acl:relcl |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 26 years | case |
| 24 | so | so | ADV | _ | 25 many | advmod |
| 25 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 years | amod |
| 26 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 heard | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 explain | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | explain speech: assert | past · do-support | the bird | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | hear | past | the king | time; year | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | is | past · perfect | the wicked plot | successful property | tree rules |
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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