The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 37, sentence 85
One day, when the king was lying on his bed racked with pain, he heard the noise of a scuffle going on in his antechamber, and rang a golden bell that stood by his side to summon one of his servants.
Who acts: king, scuffle, golden bell · What happens: lie, rack, hear, go on, ring, stand · To what, where: bed, noise, antechamber, golden bell, one
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, scuffle, golden bell), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 racked | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 lying | punct |
| 4 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 lying | advmod |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 king | det |
| 6 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 lying | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 lying | aux |
| 8 | lying | lie | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 racked | advcl |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 bed | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 bed | nmod:poss |
| 11 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 racked | obl |
| 12 | racked | rack | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 pain | case |
| 14 | pain | pain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 racked | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 heard | punct |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 heard | nsubj |
| 17 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 racked | parataxis |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 noise | det |
| 19 | noise | noise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 heard | obj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 scuffle | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 scuffle | det |
| 22 | scuffle | scuffle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 noise | nmod |
| 23 | going | go | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 22 scuffle | acl |
| 24 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 going | compound:prt |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 antechamber | case |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 antechamber | nmod:poss |
| 27 | antechamber | antechamber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 going | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 rang | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 rang | cc |
| 30 | rang | ring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 heard | conj |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 bell | det |
| 32 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 bell | amod |
| 33 | bell | bell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 rang | obj |
| 34 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 35 stood | nsubj |
| 35 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 bell | acl:relcl |
| 36 | by | by | ADP | _ | 38 side | case |
| 37 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 side | nmod:poss |
| 38 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 stood | obl |
| 39 | to | to | PART | _ | 40 summon | mark |
| 40 | summon | summon | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 35 stood | advcl |
| 41 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 40 summon | obj |
| 42 | of | of | ADP | _ | 44 servants | case |
| 43 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 44 servants | nmod:poss |
| 44 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 one | nmod |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 racked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie | past · progressive | the king | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | rack | past | king's bed | day | with pain | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with pain=Instrument | |||
| 3 | hear | past | king | the noise of a scuffle | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer noise=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | go on | gerund | a scuffle not said here | king's antechamber | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in antechamber=Location | ||||
| 5 | ring | past | king not said here | a golden bell | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bell=Theme | ||||
| 6 | stand | past | a golden bell | by king's side | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by side=Location | ||||
| 7 | summon | to-infinitive | a golden bell not said here | one of king's servants | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Recipient | ||||
| 8 | noise | a scuffle | nom noise «event intransitive»: of=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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