The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 8, sentence 21
In the great hall the king paused and pointed to an iron chest which stood in a corner.
Who acts: king, iron chest · What happens: pause, point, stand · To what, where: great hall, iron chest, corner
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, iron chest), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 hall | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 hall | det |
| 3 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 hall | amod |
| 4 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 paused | obl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 king | det |
| 6 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 paused | nsubj |
| 7 | paused | pause | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 pointed | cc |
| 9 | pointed | point | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 paused | conj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 chest | case |
| 11 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 chest | det |
| 12 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 chest | compound |
| 13 | chest | chest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 pointed | obl |
| 14 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 stood | nsubj |
| 15 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 chest | acl:relcl |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 corner | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 corner | det |
| 18 | corner | corner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 stood | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 paused | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pause | participle | the king | the great hall | vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in hall=Location | ||||
| 2 | point | participle | the king not said here | a iron chest | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to chest=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | stand | past | a iron chest | a corner | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in corner=Location |
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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