The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 37, sentence 31
On his arrival the doctor was led at once into the king's presence, and made a careful examination of his foot.
Who acts: land · What happens: lead, make, arrive, examine · To what, where: doctor, arrival, careful examination, foot
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 (land), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 arrival | case |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 arrival | nmod:poss |
| 3 | arrival | arrival | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 led | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 doctor | det |
| 5 | doctor | doctor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 led | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 led | aux:pass |
| 7 | led | lead | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 once | case |
| 9 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 7 led | obl |
| 10 | into | into | ADP | _ | 14 presence | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 king | det |
| 12 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 presence | nmod:poss |
| 13 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 12 king | case |
| 14 | presence | presence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 led | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 made | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 made | cc |
| 17 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 led | conj |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 examination | det |
| 19 | careful | careful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 examination | amod |
| 20 | examination | examination | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 made | obj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 foot | case |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 foot | nmod:poss |
| 23 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 examination | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 led | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lead | past · passive | the doctor | land's arrival | into the king's presence | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme on arrival=Destination | |||
| 2 | make | past | a careful examination of land's foot | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset examination=Product | |||||
| 3 | arrive | land | nom arrival «act intransitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 4 | examine | land's foot | nom examination «act transitive»: of=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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