The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 38, sentence 63
As he entered, the king raised himself eagerly on his pillows, but his face fell when he saw no signs of a slipper.
Who acts: Balancin, king, face · What happens: enter, raise, fall, see, sign · To what, where: Balancin, pillows, signs, slipper
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 (Balancin, king, face), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 3 entered | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 entered | nsubj |
| 3 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 raised | advcl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 entered | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 king | det |
| 6 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 raised | nsubj |
| 7 | raised | raise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 7 raised | obj |
| 9 | eagerly | eagerly | ADV | _ | 7 raised | advmod |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 pillows | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 pillows | nmod:poss |
| 12 | pillows | pillow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 raised | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 fell | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 fell | cc |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 face | nmod:poss |
| 16 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 fell | nsubj |
| 17 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 raised | conj |
| 18 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 20 saw | advmod |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 saw | nsubj |
| 20 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 fell | advcl |
| 21 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 22 signs | det |
| 22 | signs | sign | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 saw | obj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 slipper | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 slipper | det |
| 25 | slipper | slipper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 signs | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 raised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enter | past | Balancin | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | raise | past | the king | Balancin | Balancin's pillows | eagerly property | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent himself=Theme on pillow=Destination | ||
| 3 | fall | past | Balancin's face | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | see | past | Balancin | no signs of a slipper | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sign=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | sign | a slipper | nom sign «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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