The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 39, sentence 126
That evening, whilst they sat drinking their wine, Hans said to the king:
Who acts: Hans · What happens: sit, drink, say · To what, where: evening, wine, king · 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 (Hans), 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 | That | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 evening | det |
| 2 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 sat | punct |
| 4 | whilst | whilst | SCONJ | _ | 6 sat | mark |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 sat | nsubj |
| 6 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 evening | acl:relcl |
| 7 | drinking | drink | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 sat | advcl |
| 8 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 wine | nmod:poss |
| 9 | wine | wine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 drinking | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 evening | punct |
| 11 | Hans | Hans | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 said | nsubj |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 king | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 king | det |
| 15 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | obl |
| 16 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | past | Hans = han | that evening not said here | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location evening=Theme | ||||
| 2 | drink | gerund | Hans = han not said here | Hans's wine | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wine=Patient | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Hans | the king | evening | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to king=Recipient |
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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