The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 6, sentence 13
'He is at the knight's castle trying to fashion gold and silver into a cap for the youngest daughter, like unto the caps that her sisters wear, such as are not to be found in all this land.
Who acts: husband, castle, sisters · What happens: be, try, fashion, wear, not find · To what, where: castle, gold, cap, caps, land
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (husband, castle, sisters), 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 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 castle | punct |
| 2 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 castle | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 castle | cop |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 castle | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 knight | det |
| 6 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 castle | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 knight | case |
| 8 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | trying | try | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 castle | acl |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 fashion | mark |
| 11 | fashion | fashion | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 trying | xcomp |
| 12 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 fashion | obj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 silver | cc |
| 14 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 gold | conj |
| 15 | into | into | ADP | _ | 17 cap | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 cap | det |
| 17 | cap | cap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 fashion | obl |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 daughter | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 daughter | det |
| 20 | youngest | young | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 21 daughter | amod |
| 21 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 fashion | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 caps | punct |
| 23 | like | like | ADP | _ | 26 caps | case |
| 24 | unto | unto | ADP | _ | 26 caps | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 caps | det |
| 26 | caps | cap | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 fashion | obl |
| 27 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 30 wear | mark |
| 28 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 sisters | nmod:poss |
| 29 | sisters | sister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 wear | nsubj |
| 30 | wear | wear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 caps | acl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 found | punct |
| 32 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=SCONJ | 38 found | mark |
| 33 | as | as | ADP | _ | 32 such | fixed |
| 34 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 38 found | aux:pass |
| 35 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 38 found | advmod |
| 36 | to | to | PART | _ | 38 found | mark |
| 37 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 38 found | aux:pass |
| 38 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 caps | conj |
| 39 | in | in | ADP | _ | 42 land | case |
| 40 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 42 land | det:predet |
| 41 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 42 land | det |
| 42 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 found | obl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 castle | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | husband | the knight's castle | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | try | gerund | the knight's castle not said here | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | fashion not said to happen | to-infinitive | the knight's castle not said here | gold and silver | a cap | for the youngest daughter; like the caps | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP PP.product PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent gold=Material into cap=Product for daughter=Beneficiary | ||
| 4 | wear | present | woman's sisters | the caps not said here | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent cap=Theme | ||||
| 5 | not find | present · passive | the knight's castle not said here | all land | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF» |
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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