The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 37, sentence 63
While the sailors stood round staring, thinking that his majesty had suddenly gone mad.
Who acts: sailors, majesty · What happens: stand, stare, think, go · 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 (sailors, majesty), 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 | While | while | SCONJ | _ | 4 stood | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 sailors | det |
| 3 | sailors | sailor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 stood | nsubj |
| 4 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | round | round | ADP | _ | 6 staring | mark |
| 6 | staring | stare | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 stood | advcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 thinking | punct |
| 8 | thinking | think | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 staring | conj |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 gone | mark |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 majesty | nmod:poss |
| 11 | majesty | majesty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 gone | nsubj |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 gone | aux |
| 13 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 14 gone | advmod |
| 14 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 thinking | ccomp |
| 15 | mad | mad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 gone | xcomp |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | the sailors | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | stare | gerund | the sailors not said here | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | think speech: other | gerund | the sailors not said here | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | go | past · perfect | king's majesty | mad, suddenly property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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