The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 4, sentence 63
But the knight looked out of his window, and was wroth; and bade his men bring the youths before him.
Who acts: knight, men · What happens: look out, be, bade, bring · To what, where: window, youths
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (knight, men), 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 | _ | 4 looked | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 knight | det |
| 3 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 looked | nsubj |
| 4 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 8 window | case |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 window | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 window | nmod:poss |
| 8 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 looked | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 wroth | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 wroth | cc |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 wroth | cop |
| 12 | wroth | wroth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 looked | conj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 bade | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 bade | cc |
| 15 | bade | bade | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 looked | conj |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 men | nmod:poss |
| 17 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 bring | nsubj |
| 18 | bring | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 bade | ccomp |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 youths | det |
| 20 | youths | youth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 bring | obj |
| 21 | before | before | ADP | _ | 22 him | case |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 bring | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look out | past | the knight | knight's window | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | past | the knight not said here | wroth property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | bade | past | the knight not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | bring | present | knight's men | the youths | before knight | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent youth=Theme before he=Destination |
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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