The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 38, sentence 71
On the fourth morning the king awoke and instantly stretched out his wounded foot that he might prove the truth or falsehood of Gilguerillo's remedy.
Who acts: king, Gilguerillo · What happens: awake, stretch out, prove, remedy · To what, where: wounded foot, truth
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 (king, 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 4 morning | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 morning | det |
| 3 | fourth | fourth | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 morning | amod |
| 4 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 awoke | obl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 king | det |
| 6 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 awoke | nsubj |
| 7 | awoke | awake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 stretched | cc |
| 9 | instantly | instantly | ADV | _ | 10 stretched | advmod |
| 10 | stretched | stretch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 awoke | conj |
| 11 | out | out | ADP | _ | 10 stretched | compound:prt |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 foot | nmod:poss |
| 13 | wounded | wounded | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 foot | amod |
| 14 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 stretched | obj |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 prove | mark |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 prove | nsubj |
| 17 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 prove | aux |
| 18 | prove | prove | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 stretched | advcl |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 truth | det |
| 20 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 prove | obj |
| 21 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 22 falsehood | cc |
| 22 | falsehood | falsehood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 truth | conj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 remedy | case |
| 24 | Gilguerillo | Gilguerillo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 remedy | nmod:poss |
| 25 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 24 Gilguerillo | case |
| 26 | remedy | remedy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 truth | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 awoke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | awake | past | the king | morning | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | stretch out | participle | the king not said here | king's wounded foot | instantly property | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent foot=Patient | |||
| 3 | prove | might | king | the truth of Gilguerillo's remedy or falsehood | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent truth=Theme | ||||
| 4 | remedy | Gilguerillo | nom remedy «act transitive»: poss=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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