The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 37, sentence 60
It had all occurred so quickly that nobody had noticed the loss of the slipper, not even the princess, whom the king's cries speedily brought to his side.
Who acts: nobody · What happens: occur, notice, cry, bring · To what, where: shoe, loss, princess, side
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 (nobody), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 occurred | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 occurred | aux |
| 3 | all | all | ADV | _ | 4 occurred | advmod |
| 4 | occurred | occur | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 quickly | advmod |
| 6 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 4 occurred | advmod |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 noticed | mark |
| 8 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 10 noticed | nsubj |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 noticed | aux |
| 10 | noticed | notice | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 occurred | advcl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 loss | det |
| 12 | loss | loss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 noticed | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 slipper | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 slipper | det |
| 15 | slipper | slipper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 loss | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 princess | punct |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 princess | advmod |
| 18 | even | even | ADV | _ | 20 princess | advmod |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 princess | det |
| 20 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 loss | appos |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 cries | punct |
| 22 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 cries | obj |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 king | det |
| 24 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 cries | nmod:poss |
| 25 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 24 king | case |
| 26 | cries | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 princess | parataxis |
| 27 | speedily | speedily | ADV | _ | 28 brought | advmod |
| 28 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 cries | xcomp |
| 29 | to | to | ADP | _ | 31 side | case |
| 30 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 side | nmod:poss |
| 31 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 brought | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 occurred | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | occur | past · perfect · passive | shoe | all, quickly property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | notice | past · perfect | nobody | the loss of the slipper | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer loss=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | cry speech: express | present | the princess | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | bring | participle | king's side | speedily property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to side=Destination |
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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