The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 6, sentence 41
And when he found him and brought him into the castle, the girl was first struck dumb with joy; then she declared that she would marry nobody else.
Who acts: Ian, smith · What happens: find, bring, strike, declare, marry · To what, where: man, Ian, castle, girl, nobody
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 (Ian, smith), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 brought | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 found | advmod |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 found | nsubj |
| 4 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 brought | advcl |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 found | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 brought | cc |
| 7 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 brought | obj |
| 9 | into | into | ADP | _ | 11 castle | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 castle | det |
| 11 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 brought | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 struck | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 girl | det |
| 14 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 struck | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 struck | aux:pass |
| 16 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 17 struck | advmod |
| 17 | struck | strike | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 castle | conj |
| 18 | dumb | dumb | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 struck | xcomp |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 joy | case |
| 20 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 struck | obl |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 declared | punct |
| 22 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 24 declared | advmod |
| 23 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 declared | nsubj |
| 24 | declared | declare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 brought | conj |
| 25 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 28 marry | mark |
| 26 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 marry | nsubj |
| 27 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 marry | aux |
| 28 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 declared | advcl |
| 29 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 28 marry | obj |
| 30 | else | else | ADV | _ | 29 nobody | advmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 brought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past | Ian | man | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic | ||||
| 2 | bring | past | Ian | the castle | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme into castle=Destination | ||||
| 3 | strike | past · passive | the girl | with joy; dumb, first property | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with joy=Instrument | ||||
| 4 | declare speech: other | past | smith | then | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | marry | would | smith | nobody | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nobody=Patient |
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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