The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 37, sentence 59

The pain was great, and unconsciously he turned and shook his foot, so that the sandals gave way, and in a moment the precious shoe was in the river.

Who acts: pain, king, sandals, precious shoe · What happens: be, turn, shake, give · To what, where: foot, way, river

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 (pain, king, sandals, precious shoe), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 pain	det
2	pain	pain	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 great	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 great	cop
4	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 turned	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 turned	cc
7	unconsciously	unconsciously	ADV	_	9 turned	advmod
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 turned	nsubj
9	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 great	parataxis
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 shook	cc
11	shook	shake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 turned	conj
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 foot	nmod:poss
13	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 shook	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 gave	punct
15	so	so	SCONJ	_	19 gave	mark
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 gave	mark
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 sandals	det
18	sandals	sandal	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 gave	nsubj
19	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 turned	conj
20	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 gave	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 river	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 river	cc
23	in	in	ADP	_	25 moment	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 moment	det
25	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 river	obl
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 shoe	det
27	precious	precious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 shoe	amod
28	shoe	shoe	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 river	nsubj
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 river	cop
30	in	in	ADP	_	32 river	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 river	det
32	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 gave	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 great	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the pain				great property	tree rules
2	turn	past	king				unconsciously property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
3	shake	past	king not said here	king's foot				vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent foot=Patient
4	give	past	the sandals	way				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Theme
5	is	past	the precious shoe		the river	moment		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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