The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 38, sentence 35
The real truth was that, on the morning when the princess had walked through the streets before making holiday on the river Gilguerillo had seen her from his window, and had straightway fallen in love with her.
Who acts: real truth, princess, Gilguerillo · What happens: be, walk, make, see, fall · To what, where: streets, holiday, river, princess, window, love
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 (real truth, princess, Gilguerillo), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 truth | det |
| 2 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 truth | amod |
| 3 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 morning | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 morning | cop |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 morning | mark |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 morning | punct |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 morning | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 morning | det |
| 9 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 fallen | obl |
| 10 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 14 walked | mark |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 princess | det |
| 12 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 walked | nsubj |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 walked | aux |
| 14 | walked | walk | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 morning | acl:relcl |
| 15 | through | through | ADP | _ | 17 streets | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 streets | det |
| 17 | streets | street | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 walked | obl |
| 18 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 19 making | mark |
| 19 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 walked | advcl |
| 20 | holiday | holiday | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 making | obj |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 river | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 river | det |
| 23 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 making | obl |
| 24 | Gilguerillo | Gilguerillo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 seen | nsubj |
| 25 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 seen | aux |
| 26 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 23 river | acl:relcl |
| 27 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 seen | obj |
| 28 | from | from | ADP | _ | 30 window | case |
| 29 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 window | nmod:poss |
| 30 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 seen | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 had | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 had | cc |
| 33 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 fallen | aux |
| 34 | straightway | straightway | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 had | obj |
| 35 | fallen | fall | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 36 | in | in | ADP | _ | 37 love | case |
| 37 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 fallen | obl |
| 38 | with | with | ADP | _ | 39 her | case |
| 39 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 fallen | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 35 fallen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the real truth | on the morning | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | walk | past · perfect | the princess | the streets | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through street=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | make | gerund | the princess not said here | holiday | the river | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset holiday=Product | |||
| 4 | see | past · perfect | Gilguerillo | princess | Gilguerillo's window | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus | |||
| 5 | fall | past · perfect | love | with princess | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in love=Location |
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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