The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 37, sentence 69
He was carried, unconscious, to the side of his daughter, who had fainted with terror on seeing her father disappear below the surface, and together they were place in a coach and driven to the palace, where the best doctors in the city were awaiting their arrival.
Who acts: daughter, fathers, best doctors, doctors · What happens: carry, faint, see, disappear, be, drive · To what, where: swimmer, father, surface, place, coach, palace
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 (daughter, fathers, best doctors, doctors), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 carried | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 carried | aux:pass |
| 3 | carried | carry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 unconscious | punct |
| 5 | unconscious | unconscious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 carried | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 side | punct |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 side | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 side | det |
| 9 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 disappear | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 daughter | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 12 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 side | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 fainted | punct |
| 14 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 fainted | nsubj |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 fainted | aux |
| 16 | fainted | faint | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 daughter | acl:relcl |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 terror | case |
| 18 | terror | terror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 fainted | obl |
| 19 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 20 seeing | mark |
| 20 | seeing | see | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 fainted | advcl |
| 21 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 father | nmod:poss |
| 22 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 seeing | obj |
| 23 | disappear | disappear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 carried | parataxis |
| 24 | below | below | ADP | _ | 26 surface | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 surface | det |
| 26 | surface | surface | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 disappear | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 place | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 place | cc |
| 29 | together | together | ADV | _ | 32 place | advmod |
| 30 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 place | nsubj |
| 31 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 place | cop |
| 32 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 carried | obl |
| 33 | in | in | ADP | _ | 35 coach | case |
| 34 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 coach | det |
| 35 | coach | coach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 place | nmod |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 driven | cc |
| 37 | driven | drive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 carried | conj |
| 38 | to | to | ADP | _ | 40 palace | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 palace | det |
| 40 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 driven | obl |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 50 awaiting | punct |
| 42 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 50 awaiting | advmod |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 doctors | det |
| 44 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 45 doctors | amod |
| 45 | doctors | doctor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 50 awaiting | nsubj |
| 46 | in | in | ADP | _ | 48 city | case |
| 47 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 48 city | det |
| 48 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 doctors | nmod |
| 49 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 50 awaiting | aux |
| 50 | awaiting | await | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 40 palace | acl:relcl |
| 51 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 52 arrival | nmod:poss |
| 52 | arrival | arrival | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 awaiting | obj |
| 53 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 carried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry | past · passive | swimmer | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | faint | past · perfect | swimmer's daughter | with terror | vn change_bodily_state-40.8.4 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | see | gerund | swimmer's daughter not said here | daughter's father | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer father=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | disappear | present | the surface | to the side of swimmer's daughter | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | is a | past | fathers = father | place | a coach | together property | tree rules | ||
| 6 | drive | participle | the palace | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to palace=Trajectory | |||||
| 7 | await | past · progressive | the best doctors in the city | doctors's arrival | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | arrive | doctors = doctor | nom arrival «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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