The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 5, sentence 63
So the next morning the knight's youngest daughter loaded asses with all the silver and gold to be found in the castle, and she set out with Ian the soldier's son for the house where her second sister was waiting to see what would befall.
Who acts: next morning, daughter, second sister · What happens: load, find, set out, wait, see, befall · To what, where: asses, castle, son · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (next morning, daughter, second sister), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 10 loaded | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 morning | det |
| 3 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 morning | amod |
| 4 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 loaded | nsubj |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 knight | det |
| 6 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 knight | case |
| 8 | youngest | young | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 9 daughter | amod |
| 9 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 morning | nmod |
| 10 | loaded | load | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | asses | ass | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 loaded | obj |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 silver | case |
| 13 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 silver | det:predet |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 silver | det |
| 15 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 asses | nmod |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 gold | cc |
| 17 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 silver | conj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 found | mark |
| 19 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 found | aux:pass |
| 20 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 loaded | advcl |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 castle | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 castle | det |
| 23 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 found | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 set | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 set | cc |
| 26 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 set | nsubj |
| 27 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 loaded | conj |
| 28 | out | out | ADP | _ | 27 set | compound:prt |
| 29 | with | with | ADP | _ | 30 Ian | case |
| 30 | Ian | Ian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 set | obl |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 soldier | det |
| 32 | soldier | soldier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 son | nmod:poss |
| 33 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 32 soldier | case |
| 34 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 set | obj |
| 35 | for | for | ADP | _ | 37 house | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 house | det |
| 37 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 set | obl |
| 38 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 43 waiting | advmod |
| 39 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 41 sister | nmod:poss |
| 40 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 41 sister | amod |
| 41 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 waiting | nsubj |
| 42 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 43 waiting | aux |
| 43 | waiting | wait | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 37 house | acl:relcl |
| 44 | to | to | PART | _ | 45 see | mark |
| 45 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 43 waiting | advcl |
| 46 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 48 befall | obj |
| 47 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 48 befall | aux |
| 48 | befall | befall | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 45 see | ccomp |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 loaded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | load | past | the next morning the knight's youngest daughter | asses | with all silver and gold | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent ass=Destination with silver=Theme | |||
| 2 | find | to-infinitive · passive | the next morning the knight's youngest daughter not said here | the castle | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF» | ||||
| 3 | set out | past | daughter | the soldier's son | with Ian; for the house | tree rules | |||
| 4 | wait | past · progressive | daughter's second sister | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | see | to-infinitive | daughter's second sister not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 6 | befall | would | 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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