The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 37, sentence 47
For two years everything went smoothly at court, and to king Balancin and his daughter the sun no sooner rose than it seemed time for it to set.
Who acts: everything, it, escort · What happens: go, rise, seem, set · To what, where: court, Balancin
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 (everything, it, escort), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 3 years | case |
| 2 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 years | nummod |
| 3 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 went | obl |
| 4 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 5 went | nsubj |
| 5 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | smoothly | smoothly | ADV | _ | 5 went | advmod |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 court | case |
| 8 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 went | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 rose | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 rose | cc |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 Balancin | case |
| 12 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 Balancin | nmod:desc |
| 13 | Balancin | Balancin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 rose | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 daughter | cc |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 16 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 Balancin | conj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 sun | det |
| 18 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 Balancin | nmod:unmarked |
| 19 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 20 sooner | det |
| 20 | sooner | soon | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 21 rose | advmod |
| 21 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 went | conj |
| 22 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 24 seemed | mark |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 seemed | nsubj |
| 24 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 rose | ccomp |
| 25 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 seemed | obj |
| 26 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 29 set | mark |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 set | nsubj |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 set | mark |
| 29 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 time | acl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | everything | court | year | smoothly property | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at court=Location | ||
| 2 | rise | past | everything not said here | Balancin king the sun and king's daughter | soon property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | seem | past | it | time | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | set | to-infinitive | escort | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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