The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 39, sentence 113
When the princess and Hans had given up hope, and cast themselves down on the ground to die, they fell down this hole, and right through the earth as well, and at last they tumbled into a castle built of pure gold at the other side of the world, and there they lived happily.
Who acts: you, people · What happens: give up, cast down, die, fall down, tumble, build · To what, where: princess, people, ground, hole, earth, last
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 (you, people), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 7 given | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 princess | det |
| 3 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 given | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 Hans | cc |
| 5 | Hans | Hans | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 princess | conj |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 given | aux |
| 7 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 cast | advcl |
| 8 | up | up | ADP | _ | 7 given | compound:prt |
| 9 | hope | hope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 given | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 cast | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 cast | cc |
| 12 | cast | cast | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 12 cast | obj |
| 14 | down | down | ADP | _ | 12 cast | compound:prt |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 ground | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 ground | det |
| 17 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 cast | obl |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 die | mark |
| 19 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 ground | acl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 fell | punct |
| 21 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 fell | nsubj |
| 22 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 cast | parataxis |
| 23 | down | down | ADV | _ | 22 fell | advmod |
| 24 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 25 hole | det |
| 25 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 fell | obl:unmarked |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 earth | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 earth | cc |
| 28 | right | right | ADV | _ | 31 earth | advmod |
| 29 | through | through | ADP | _ | 31 earth | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 earth | det |
| 31 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 fell | obl |
| 32 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=ADV | 31 earth | advmod |
| 33 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 32 as | fixed |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 tumbled | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 tumbled | cc |
| 36 | at | at | ADP | _ | 37 last | case |
| 37 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 tumbled | obl |
| 38 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 tumbled | nsubj |
| 39 | tumbled | tumble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 fell | conj |
| 40 | into | into | ADP | _ | 42 castle | case |
| 41 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 42 castle | det |
| 42 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 tumbled | obl |
| 43 | built | build | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 42 castle | acl |
| 44 | of | of | ADP | _ | 46 gold | case |
| 45 | pure | pure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 gold | amod |
| 46 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 built | obl |
| 47 | at | at | ADP | _ | 50 side | case |
| 48 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 50 side | det |
| 49 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 50 side | amod |
| 50 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 built | obl |
| 51 | of | of | ADP | _ | 53 world | case |
| 52 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 53 world | det |
| 53 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 side | nmod |
| 54 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 58 lived | punct |
| 55 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 58 lived | cc |
| 56 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 58 lived | expl |
| 57 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 58 lived | nsubj |
| 58 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 tumbled | conj |
| 59 | happily | happily | ADV | _ | 58 lived | advmod |
| 60 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 cast | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give up | past · perfect · passive | the princess and Hans | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | cast down | imperative | you not said here | people | the ground | vn throw-17.1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme on ground=Destination | |||
| 3 | die | to-infinitive | you not said here | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 4 | fall down | past | people | this hole | the earth | down property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through earth=Location | ||
| 5 | tumble | past | people | last | into a castle | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into castle=Initial_Location | |||
| 6 | build | participle | a castle not said here | the other side of the world | of pure gold | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||
| 7 | live | past | people | there | happily property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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