The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 8, sentence 19
And the king of Erin looked at the maiden, and was well pleased, not knowing that it was Gille Mairtean the fox.
Who acts: king, maiden · What happens: look, be, not know · To what, where: fox, Gille Mairtean
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, maiden), 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 | _ | 6 looked | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 king | det |
| 3 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 looked | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Erin | case |
| 5 | Erin | Erin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 king | nmod |
| 6 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 maiden | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 maiden | det |
| 9 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 looked | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 pleased | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 pleased | cc |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 pleased | cop |
| 13 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 14 pleased | advmod |
| 14 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 looked | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 knowing | punct |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 knowing | advmod |
| 17 | knowing | know | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 pleased | advcl |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 Mairtean | mark |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 Mairtean | nsubj |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 Mairtean | cop |
| 21 | Gille | Gille | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Mairtean | compound |
| 22 | Mairtean | Mairtean | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 knowing | xcomp |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 fox | det |
| 24 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 knowing | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | the king of Erin | at the maiden | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at maiden=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | past | the king of Erin not said here | pleased, well property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not know | gerund | the king of Erin not said here | the fox | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer fox=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | is a | past | maiden | Gille Mairtean | 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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