The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 38, sentence 23
And the reply was so unexpected that the courtiers could hardly restrain their smiles, while the king stared silently.
Who acts: reply, courtiers, king · What happens: be, restrain, stare, smile · To what, where: smiles
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (reply, courtiers, 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 unexpected | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 reply | det |
| 3 | reply | reply | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 unexpected | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 unexpected | cop |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 unexpected | advmod |
| 6 | unexpected | unexpected | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 restrain | mark |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 courtiers | det |
| 9 | courtiers | courtier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 restrain | nsubj |
| 10 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 restrain | aux |
| 11 | hardly | hardly | ADV | _ | 12 restrain | advmod |
| 12 | restrain | restrain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 unexpected | ccomp |
| 13 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 smiles | nmod:poss |
| 14 | smiles | smile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 restrain | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 stared | punct |
| 16 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 19 stared | mark |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 king | det |
| 18 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 stared | nsubj |
| 19 | stared | stare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 restrain | parataxis |
| 20 | silently | silently | ADV | _ | 19 stared | advmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 unexpected | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the reply | unexpected property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | restrain | could | the courtiers | courtiers's smiles | hardly property | vn discourage-64.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer smile=Eventuality | |||
| 3 | stare | past | the king | silently property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | smile | courtiers = courtier | nom smile «communication transitive»: 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/38/23/