The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 5, sentence 27
But he took no heed, and went on his way till he reached the castle where the knight's youngest daughter was sewing in the hall.
Who acts: home, youngest daughter · What happens: take, go, reach, sew · To what, where: heed, way, castle, hall
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (home, youngest daughter), 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 | _ | 3 took | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 5 heed | det |
| 5 | heed | heed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 went | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 went | cc |
| 8 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 way | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 way | nmod:poss |
| 11 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 went | obl |
| 12 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 14 reached | mark |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 reached | nsubj |
| 14 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 went | advcl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 castle | det |
| 16 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 reached | obj |
| 17 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 24 sewing | advmod |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 knight | det |
| 19 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 20 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 19 knight | case |
| 21 | youngest | young | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 22 daughter | amod |
| 22 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 sewing | nsubj |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 sewing | aux |
| 24 | sewing | sew | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 castle | acl |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 hall | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 hall | det |
| 27 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 sewing | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | home | no heed | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heed=Theme | ||||
| 2 | go | past | home not said here | home's way | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on way=Location | ||||
| 3 | reach | past | home | the castle | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent castle=Theme | ||||
| 4 | sew | past · progressive | the knight's youngest daughter | the hall | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in hall=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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