The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 37, sentence 15
Of course the king, whose name was Balancin, was the complete slave of his little girl from the moment he lifted her from the arms of her dead mother; indeed, he did not seem to know that there was anyone else in the world to love.
Who acts: name, king, anyone, Balancin · What happens: be, lift, not seem, know, love, name · To what, where: Balancin, complete slave, daughter, arms · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (name, king, anyone, Balancin), 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 | Of | of | ADP | _ | 4 king | case |
| 2 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Of | fixed |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 king | det |
| 4 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 slave | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 Balancin | punct |
| 6 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 7 name | nmod:poss |
| 7 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 Balancin | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 Balancin | cop |
| 9 | Balancin | Balancin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 king | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 king | punct |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 slave | cop |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 slave | det |
| 13 | complete | complete | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 slave | amod |
| 14 | slave | slave | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 girl | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 girl | nmod:poss |
| 17 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 girl | amod |
| 18 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 slave | nmod |
| 19 | from | from | ADP | _ | 21 moment | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 moment | det |
| 21 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 girl | nmod |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 lifted | nsubj |
| 23 | lifted | lift | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 moment | acl:relcl |
| 24 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 lifted | obj |
| 25 | from | from | ADP | _ | 27 arms | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 arms | det |
| 27 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 lifted | obl |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 mother | case |
| 29 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 mother | nmod:poss |
| 30 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 mother | amod |
| 31 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 arms | nmod |
| 32 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 38 seem | punct |
| 33 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 38 seem | advmod |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 indeed | punct |
| 35 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 seem | nsubj |
| 36 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 seem | aux |
| 37 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 38 seem | advmod |
| 38 | seem | seem | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 slave | parataxis |
| 39 | to | to | PART | _ | 40 know | mark |
| 40 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 38 seem | xcomp |
| 41 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 43 was | mark |
| 42 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 43 was | expl |
| 43 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 know | ccomp |
| 44 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 43 was | nsubj |
| 45 | else | else | ADV | _ | 44 anyone | advmod |
| 46 | in | in | ADP | _ | 48 world | case |
| 47 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 48 world | det |
| 48 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 anyone | nmod |
| 49 | to | to | PART | _ | 50 love | mark |
| 50 | love | love | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 44 anyone | acl |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 slave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Balancin's name | Balancin | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | the complete slave | of the king; of king's little girl from the moment | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | lift | past | king | daughter | the arms of daughter's dead mother | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme from arm=Destination | |||
| 4 | not seem | past · do-support | king | indeed property | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | ||||
| 5 | know | to-infinitive | king not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 6 | be | past | anyone | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 7 | love | to-infinitive | anyone not said here | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 8 | name | Balancin | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=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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