The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 39, sentence 109
But at the end of a week or two the king thought it was time to give her a grand funeral, in spite of her bad behaviour, and he had the summer-house opened.
Who acts: king, door, summer house · What happens: think, be, give, have, open, spite · To what, where: end, time, grand funeral, house, spite, bad behaviour · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 39. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, door, summer house), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 thought | cc |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 end | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 end | det |
| 4 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 thought | obl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 week | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 week | det |
| 7 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 end | nmod |
| 8 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 9 two | cc |
| 9 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 week | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 king | det |
| 11 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 thought | nsubj |
| 12 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 time | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 time | cop |
| 15 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 thought | ccomp |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 give | mark |
| 17 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 time | acl |
| 18 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 give | iobj |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 funeral | det |
| 20 | grand | grand | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 funeral | amod |
| 21 | funeral | funeral | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 give | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 spite | punct |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 spite | case |
| 24 | spite | spite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 give | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 behaviour | case |
| 26 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 behaviour | nmod:poss |
| 27 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 behaviour | amod |
| 28 | behaviour | behaviour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 spite | nmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 had | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 had | cc |
| 31 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 had | nsubj |
| 32 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 thought | ccomp |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 house | det |
| 34 | summer | summer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 house | compound |
| 35 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 34 summer | punct |
| 36 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 opened | nsubj |
| 37 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 had | parataxis |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | the king | at the end of a week | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | door | time | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | give | to-infinitive | the king not said here | a grand funeral | house | spite of house's bad behaviour | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient funeral=Theme | ||
| 4 | have | past | king | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | open | past | the summer house | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | spite | house's bad behaviour | nom spite «feeling 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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