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The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 7, sentence 38

Then he went away to seek the bird, as his stepmother bade him; and, looking homewards from the hill, he saw the queen standing with one foot on the great house, and the other on the castle, and her face turned towards whatever tempest should blow.

Who acts: Direach, queen, face, tempest · What happens: go away, seek, look, see, stand, turn · To what, where: bird, homewards, hill, queen, great house, whatever

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Direach, queen, face, tempest), 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

advmodnsubjadvmodmarkxcompdetobjpunctcasenmod:posscompoundconjobjpunctccpunctadvclobjcasedetoblpunctnsubjconjdetobjaclcasenummodoblcasedetamodoblpunctccdetparataxiscasedetoblpunctccnmod:possnsubjconjcaseoblnsubjauxacl:relclpunctrootThenADVhePRONwentVERBawayADVtoPARTseekVERBtheDETbirdNOUN,PUNCTasADPhisPRONstepmotherNOUNbadeNOUNhimPRON;PUNCTandCCONJ,PUNCTlookingVERBhomewardsNOUNfromADPtheDEThillNOUN,PUNCThePRONsawVERBtheDETqueenNOUNstandingVERBwithADPoneNUMfootNOUNonADPtheDETgreatADJhouseNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJtheDETotherADJonADPtheDETcastleNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJherPRONfaceNOUNturnedVERBtowardsADPwhateverPRONtempestNOUNshouldAUXblowVERB.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ThenthenADVPronType=Dem3 wentadvmod
2hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs3 wentnsubj
3wentgoVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
4awayawayADV_3 wentadvmod
5totoPART_6 seekmark
6seekseekVERBVerbForm=Inf3 wentxcomp
7thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art8 birddet
8birdbirdNOUNNumber=Sing6 seekobj
9,,PUNCT_13 badepunct
10asasADP_13 badecase
11hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs13 badenmod:poss
12stepmotherstepmotherNOUNNumber=Sing13 badecompound
13badebadeNOUNNumber=Sing6 seekconj
14himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs13 badeobj
15;;PUNCT_25 sawpunct
16andandCCONJ_25 sawcc
17,,PUNCT_18 lookingpunct
18lookinglookVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part25 sawadvcl
19homewardshomewardNOUNNumber=Plur18 lookingobj
20fromfromADP_22 hillcase
21thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art22 hilldet
22hillhillNOUNNumber=Sing18 lookingobl
23,,PUNCT_18 lookingpunct
24hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs25 sawnsubj
25sawseeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin3 wentconj
26thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art27 queendet
27queenqueenNOUNNumber=Sing25 sawobj
28standingstandVERBVerbForm=Ger27 queenacl
29withwithADP_31 footcase
30oneoneNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card31 footnummod
31footfootNOUNNumber=Sing28 standingobl
32ononADP_35 housecase
33thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art35 housedet
34greatgreatADJDegree=Pos35 houseamod
35househouseNOUNNumber=Sing28 standingobl
36,,PUNCT_39 otherpunct
37andandCCONJ_39 othercc
38thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art39 otherdet
39otherotherADJDegree=Pos3 wentparataxis
40ononADP_42 castlecase
41thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art42 castledet
42castlecastleNOUNNumber=Sing39 otherobl
43,,PUNCT_47 turnedpunct
44andandCCONJ_47 turnedcc
45herherPRONCase=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs46 facenmod:poss
46facefaceNOUNNumber=Sing47 turnednsubj
47turnedturnVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin3 wentconj
48towardstowardsADP_49 whatevercase
49whateverwhateverPRONPronType=Rel47 turnedobl
50tempesttempestNOUNNumber=Sing52 blownsubj
51shouldshouldAUXVerbForm=Fin52 blowaux
52blowblowVERBVerbForm=Inf49 whateveracl:relcl
53..PUNCT_3 wentpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1go awaypastDireachthenaway propertyvn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2seekto-infinitiveDireach not said herethe birdvn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=Theme
3lookgerundDireach not said herehomewardsthe hillvn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme homeward=Attribute
4seepastDireachthe queenvn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer queen=Stimulus
5standgerundthe queen not said herethe great housewith one footvn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on house=Location
6turnpastqueen's facewhatevervn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme towards whatever=Trajectory
7blowshouldtempestvn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=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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