The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 37, sentence 66
The king could bear the sight no more, and, besides, now that the healing ointment in the shoe had been removed the pain in his foot was as bad as ever; he gave a sudden cry, staggered, and fell over the bulwarks into the water.
Who acts: king, foot · What happens: bear, remove, be, give, stagger, fall · To what, where: sight, healing ointment, pain, sudden cry, bulwarks
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 (king, foot), 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 king | det |
| 2 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bear | nsubj |
| 3 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 bear | aux |
| 4 | bear | bear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 sight | det |
| 6 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bear | obj |
| 7 | no | no | ADV | _ | 8 more | advmod |
| 8 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 4 bear | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 besides | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 besides | cc |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 besides | punct |
| 12 | besides | besides | INTJ | _ | 4 bear | discourse |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 removed | punct |
| 14 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 24 removed | advmod |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 24 removed | mark |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 ointment | det |
| 17 | healing | healing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 ointment | compound |
| 18 | ointment | ointment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 removed | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 shoe | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 shoe | det |
| 21 | shoe | shoe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 ointment | nmod |
| 22 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 removed | aux |
| 23 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 24 removed | aux:pass |
| 24 | removed | remove | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 bear | parataxis |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 pain | det |
| 26 | pain | pain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 removed | obj |
| 27 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 32 bad | mark |
| 28 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 foot | nmod:poss |
| 29 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 bad | nsubj |
| 30 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 bad | cop |
| 31 | as | as | ADV | _ | 32 bad | advmod |
| 32 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 pain | acl |
| 33 | as | as | ADP | _ | 34 ever | case |
| 34 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 32 bad | obl |
| 35 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 37 gave | punct |
| 36 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 gave | nsubj |
| 37 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 bear | parataxis |
| 38 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 40 cry | det |
| 39 | sudden | sudden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 cry | amod |
| 40 | cry | cry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 gave | obj |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 staggered | punct |
| 42 | staggered | stagger | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 gave | conj |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 fell | punct |
| 44 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 fell | cc |
| 45 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 42 staggered | conj |
| 46 | over | over | ADP | _ | 48 bulwarks | case |
| 47 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 48 bulwarks | det |
| 48 | bulwarks | bulwark | NOUN | Number=Plur | 45 fell | obl |
| 49 | into | into | ADP | _ | 51 water | case |
| 50 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 51 water | det |
| 51 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 fell | obl |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 bear | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bear | could | the king | the sight | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sight=Patient | ||||
| 2 | remove | past · perfect · passive | the healing ointment in the shoe | now | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | past | king's foot | the pain not said here | bad property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | give | past | king | a sudden cry | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cry=Theme | ||||
| 5 | stagger | past | king not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 6 | fall | past | king not said here | the bulwarks | into the water | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme over bulwark=Initial_Location into water=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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