The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 37, sentence 80
Now many daughters would have rebelled at being disposed of in the manner; and it must be admitted that Diamantina's heart sank when she heard what the king had done.
Who acts: heart, king · What happens: rebel, dispose, admit, sink, hear, do · To what, where: many daughters, proclamation · 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 (heart, king), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 many | advmod |
| 2 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 daughters | amod |
| 3 | daughters | daughter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 rebelled | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 rebelled | aux |
| 5 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 rebelled | aux |
| 6 | rebelled | rebel | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | at | at | SCONJ | _ | 9 disposed | mark |
| 8 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 disposed | aux:pass |
| 9 | disposed | dispose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 rebelled | xcomp |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 manner | case |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 manner | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 manner | det |
| 13 | manner | manner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 disposed | obl |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 admitted | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 admitted | cc |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 admitted | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 admitted | aux |
| 18 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 19 admitted | aux:pass |
| 19 | admitted | admit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 rebelled | parataxis |
| 20 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 24 sank | mark |
| 21 | Diamantina | Diamantina | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 heart | nmod:poss |
| 22 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 21 Diamantina | case |
| 23 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 sank | nsubj |
| 24 | sank | sink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 admitted | advcl |
| 25 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 27 heard | advmod |
| 26 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 heard | nsubj |
| 27 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 sank | advcl |
| 28 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 32 done | obj |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 king | det |
| 30 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 done | nsubj |
| 31 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 done | aux |
| 32 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 27 heard | ccomp |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 rebelled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rebel | would · perfect · passive | many daughters | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | dispose | gerund · passive | of the manner | vn addict-96 «NP V NP PP.Theme» | |||||
| 3 | admit speech: other | must · passive | proclamation | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 4 | sink | past | Diamantina's heart | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 5 | hear | past | heart | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 6 | do | past · perfect | the king | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
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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