The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 38, sentence 37
It was absurd to imagine that the apothecary's nephew could ever marry the king's daughter; so he did his best to forget her, and study harder than before, till the royal proclamation suddenly filled him with hope.
Who acts: It, nephew, royal proclamation · What happens: be, imagine, marry, forget, fill · To what, where: daughter, princess, Gilguerillo
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 (It, nephew, royal proclamation), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 absurd | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 absurd | cop |
| 3 | absurd | absurd | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 imagine | mark |
| 5 | imagine | imagine | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 absurd | xcomp |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 marry | mark |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 apothecary | det |
| 8 | apothecary | apothecary | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 nephew | nmod:poss |
| 9 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 8 apothecary | case |
| 10 | nephew | nephew | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 marry | nsubj |
| 11 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 marry | aux |
| 12 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 13 marry | advmod |
| 13 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 imagine | advcl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 king | det |
| 15 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 16 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 15 king | case |
| 17 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 marry | obj |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 best | punct |
| 19 | so | so | ADV | _ | 23 best | advmod |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 best | nsubj |
| 21 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 best | aux |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 best | nmod:poss |
| 23 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 3 absurd | parataxis |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 forget | mark |
| 25 | forget | forget | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 best | csubj |
| 26 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 forget | obj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 harder | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 harder | cc |
| 29 | study | study | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 harder | obl:unmarked |
| 30 | harder | hard | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 absurd | parataxis |
| 31 | than | than | ADP | _ | 32 before | case |
| 32 | before | before | ADV | _ | 30 harder | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 filled | punct |
| 34 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 39 filled | mark |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 proclamation | det |
| 36 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 proclamation | amod |
| 37 | proclamation | proclamation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 filled | nsubj |
| 38 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 39 filled | advmod |
| 39 | filled | fill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 harder | conj |
| 40 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 filled | obj |
| 41 | with | with | ADP | _ | 42 hope | case |
| 42 | hope | hope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 filled | obl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 absurd | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | It | absurd property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | imagine | to-infinitive | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | ||||||
| 3 | marry | could | the apothecary's nephew | the king's daughter | ever | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient | |||
| 4 | forget | to-infinitive | princess | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | fill | past | the royal proclamation | Gilguerillo | with hope; suddenly property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent he=Patient with hope=Instrument |
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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