The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 38, sentence 33
Therefore, when it became known that he had promised to cure the king's foot, and had ridden away--no one knew where--a roar of laughter and mockery rang through the town, and jeers and scoffing words were sent after him.
Who acts: Gilguerillo, one, roar, laughter · What happens: know, promise, cure, ride away, ring, scoff · To what, where: little, foot, town, jeers · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Gilguerillo, one, roar, laughter), 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 | Therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 6 known | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Therefore | punct |
| 3 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 known | advmod |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 known | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 known | aux:pass |
| 6 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 promised | mark |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 promised | nsubj |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 promised | aux |
| 10 | promised | promise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 known | ccomp |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 cure | mark |
| 12 | cure | cure | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 promised | xcomp |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 king | det |
| 14 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 foot | nmod:poss |
| 15 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 14 king | case |
| 16 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 cure | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 ridden | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 ridden | cc |
| 19 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 ridden | aux |
| 20 | ridden | ride | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 known | conj |
| 21 | away | away | ADV | _ | 20 ridden | advmod |
| 22 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 25 knew | punct |
| 23 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 24 one | det |
| 24 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 knew | nsubj |
| 25 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 ridden | conj |
| 26 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 34 rang | advmod |
| 27 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 29 roar | punct |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 roar | det |
| 29 | roar | roar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 rang | nsubj |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 laughter | case |
| 31 | laughter | laughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 roar | nmod |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 mockery | cc |
| 33 | mockery | mockery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 roar | conj |
| 34 | rang | ring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 knew | advcl |
| 35 | through | through | ADP | _ | 37 town | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 town | det |
| 37 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 rang | obl |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 sent | punct |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 sent | cc |
| 40 | jeers | jeer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 45 sent | nsubj:pass |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 words | cc |
| 42 | scoffing | scoff | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 43 words | amod |
| 43 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 jeers | conj |
| 44 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 45 sent | aux:pass |
| 45 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 known | parataxis |
| 46 | after | after | ADP | _ | 47 him | case |
| 47 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 45 sent | obl |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 known | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | past · passive | little | therefore property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | promise speech: promise | past · perfect | Gilguerillo | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | cure not said to happen | to-infinitive | Gilguerillo not said here | the king's foot | vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer foot=Source | ||||
| 4 | ride away | past · perfect | away property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | know | past | no one | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 6 | ring | past | a roar of laughter and mockery | the town | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through town=Location | ||||
| 7 | scoff | gerund | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 8 | send | past · passive | jeers and scoffing words | after Gilguerillo | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 9 | roar | laughter | nom roar «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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