The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 4, sentence 64
When he stood in his hall and beheld them, his heart was softened somewhat; but his face was angry as he asked:
Who acts: man, face · What happens: stand, behold, soften, be, ask · To what, where: hall, youths, heart
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 (man, face), 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 | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 stood | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 stood | nsubj |
| 3 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 hall | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 hall | nmod:poss |
| 6 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stood | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 beheld | cc |
| 8 | beheld | behold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 stood | conj |
| 9 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 beheld | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 softened | punct |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 heart | nmod:poss |
| 12 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 softened | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 softened | aux:pass |
| 14 | softened | soften | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 beheld | parataxis |
| 15 | somewhat | somewhat | ADV | _ | 14 softened | advmod |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 angry | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 angry | cc |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 face | nmod:poss |
| 19 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 angry | nsubj |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 angry | cop |
| 21 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 stood | parataxis |
| 22 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 24 asked | mark |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 asked | nsubj |
| 24 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 angry | advcl |
| 25 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 3 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | man | man's hall | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in hall=Location | ||||
| 2 | behold | past | man not said here | youths = youth | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | soften | past · passive | man's heart | somewhat property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 4 | is | past | man's face | angry property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | ask speech: ask | past | man | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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