The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 34, sentence 7
He took his children in his arms, with tears in his eyes, and hurried off with them to the tower in the mountains where the queen was shut up.
Who acts: king · What happens: take, hurry off, shut up · To what, where: children, arms, mountains, queen
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 (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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 took | nsubj |
| 2 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 children | nmod:poss |
| 4 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 took | obj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 arms | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 arms | nmod:poss |
| 7 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 took | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 tears | punct |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 tears | case |
| 10 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 took | obl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 eyes | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 13 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 tears | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 hurried | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 hurried | cc |
| 16 | hurried | hurry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 took | conj |
| 17 | off | off | ADP | _ | 16 hurried | compound:prt |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 them | case |
| 19 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 hurried | obl |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 tower | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 tower | det |
| 22 | tower | tower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 hurried | obl |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 mountains | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 mountains | det |
| 25 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 hurried | obl |
| 26 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 30 shut | advmod |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 queen | det |
| 28 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 shut | nsubj |
| 29 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 shut | aux:pass |
| 30 | shut | shut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 mountains | acl:relcl |
| 31 | up | up | ADP | _ | 30 shut | compound:prt |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | king | king's children | king's arms | with tears in king's eyes | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent child=Value in arm=Location | ||
| 2 | hurry off | past | king not said here | the mountains | with eyes = eye; to the tower | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to tower=Destination | |||
| 3 | shut up | past · passive | the queen | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
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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