The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 38, sentence 48
However, the dreaded signs were absent, and his heart bounded at the thought that the princess was within his reach.
Who acts: dreaded signs, heart, princess · What happens: dread, be, bound · To what, where: thought
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 (dreaded signs, heart, princess), 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 | However | however | ADV | _ | 7 absent | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 However | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 signs | det |
| 4 | dreaded | dread | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 signs | amod |
| 5 | signs | sign | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 absent | nsubj |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 absent | cop |
| 7 | absent | absent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 bounded | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 bounded | cc |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 heart | nmod:poss |
| 11 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 bounded | nsubj |
| 12 | bounded | bound | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 absent | conj |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 thought | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 thought | det |
| 15 | thought | thought | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 bounded | obl |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 reach | mark |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 princess | det |
| 18 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 reach | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 reach | cop |
| 20 | within | within | ADP | _ | 22 reach | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 reach | nmod:poss |
| 22 | reach | reach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 thought | acl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 absent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dread | participle | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 2 | is | past | the dreaded signs | absent, however property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | bound | participle | Gilguerillo's heart | the thought | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at thought=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | is | past | the princess | the thought not said here | within Gilguerillo's reach | tree rules |
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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