The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 37, sentence 86
'Sire,' answered the attendant, when the king inquired what was the matter, 'the noise you heard was caused by a young man from the town, who has had the impudence to come here to ask if he may measure your majesty's foot, so as to make you another slipper in place of the lost one.'
Who acts: Sire, king, you, young man, town · What happens: answer, inquire, be, hear, cause, have · To what, where: attendant, matter, noise, impudence, foot, slipper
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 (Sire, king, you, young man), 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 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Sire | punct |
| 2 | Sire | sire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 answered | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Sire | punct |
| 4 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Sire | punct |
| 5 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 attendant | det |
| 7 | attendant | attendant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 answered | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 inquired | punct |
| 9 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 inquired | advmod |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 king | det |
| 11 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 inquired | nsubj |
| 12 | inquired | inquire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 answered | conj |
| 13 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 16 matter | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 matter | cop |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 matter | det |
| 16 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 inquired | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 caused | punct |
| 18 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 24 caused | punct |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 noise | det |
| 20 | noise | noise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 caused | nsubj |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 heard | nsubj |
| 22 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 noise | acl:relcl |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 caused | aux:pass |
| 24 | caused | cause | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 matter | appos |
| 25 | by | by | ADP | _ | 28 man | case |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 man | det |
| 27 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 man | amod |
| 28 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 caused | obl |
| 29 | from | from | ADP | _ | 31 town | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 town | det |
| 31 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 man | nmod |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 had | punct |
| 33 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 35 had | nsubj |
| 34 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 35 had | aux |
| 35 | had | have | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 31 town | acl:relcl |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 impudence | det |
| 37 | impudence | impudence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 had | obj |
| 38 | to | to | PART | _ | 39 come | mark |
| 39 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 37 impudence | acl |
| 40 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 39 come | advmod |
| 41 | to | to | PART | _ | 42 ask | mark |
| 42 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 39 come | advcl |
| 43 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 46 measure | mark |
| 44 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 46 measure | nsubj |
| 45 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 46 measure | aux |
| 46 | measure | measure | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 42 ask | ccomp |
| 47 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 48 majesty | nmod:poss |
| 48 | majesty | majesty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 foot | nmod:poss |
| 49 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 48 majesty | case |
| 50 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 measure | obj |
| 51 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 55 make | punct |
| 52 | so | so | ADV | _ | 55 make | advmod |
| 53 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 55 make | mark |
| 54 | to | to | PART | _ | 55 make | mark |
| 55 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 answered | parataxis |
| 56 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 55 make | obj |
| 57 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 58 slipper | det |
| 58 | slipper | slipper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 55 make | obj |
| 59 | in | in | ADP | _ | 60 place | case |
| 60 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 55 make | obl |
| 61 | of | of | ADP | _ | 64 one | case |
| 62 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 64 one | det |
| 63 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 64 one | amod |
| 64 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 60 place | nmod |
| 65 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 55 make | punct |
| 66 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 55 make | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | Sire | the attendant | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent attendant=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | inquire speech: other | past | the king | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a | past | the matter | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | hear | past | you | the noise not said here | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer noise=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | cause | past · passive | a young man from the town | the noise | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition subject=Patient | ||||
| 6 | have | present · perfect | the town | the impudence | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent impudence=Patient | ||||
| 7 | come | to-infinitive | the town not said here | the impudence not said here | here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 8 | ask speech: ask | to-infinitive | the town not said here | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 9 | measure a condition, not said to happen | may | king | your majesty's foot | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme foot=Value | ||||
| 10 | make | to-infinitive | another slipper | you | place of the lost one | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset you=Beneficiary slipper=Product | |||
| 11 | lose | participle | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=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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