The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 39, sentence 122
Oh, how thankful he was in the end to reach the castle, and to meet the princess and Hans, looking quite well and not at all as if they had been starved.
Who acts: man · What happens: be, reach, meet, look, starve · To what, where: end, castle, princess, Hans
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 (man), 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 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 4 thankful | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 thankful | punct |
| 3 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 thankful | advmod |
| 4 | thankful | thankful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 end | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 end | cop |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 end | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 end | det |
| 9 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 thankful | ccomp |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 reach | mark |
| 11 | reach | reach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 end | acl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 castle | det |
| 13 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 reach | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 meet | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 meet | cc |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 meet | mark |
| 17 | meet | meet | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 thankful | parataxis |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 princess | det |
| 19 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 meet | obj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 Hans | cc |
| 21 | Hans | Han | PROPN | Number=Plur | 19 princess | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 looking | punct |
| 23 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 meet | advcl |
| 24 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 25 well | advmod |
| 25 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 29 all | advmod |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 all | cc |
| 27 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 29 all | advmod |
| 28 | at | at | ADP | _ | 29 all | case |
| 29 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 23 looking | obl |
| 30 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 35 starved | mark |
| 31 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 35 starved | mark |
| 32 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 starved | nsubj:pass |
| 33 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 starved | aux |
| 34 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 35 starved | aux:pass |
| 35 | starved | starve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 looking | advcl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 thankful | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | man | in the end | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | reach | to-infinitive | the castle | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent castle=Theme | |||||
| 3 | meet | to-infinitive | the princess and Hans | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Co-Agent | |||||
| 4 | look | gerund | at all | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at all=Theme | |||||
| 5 | starve | past · perfect · passive | Hans = han | 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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