The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 4, sentence 103
The princess had not known, when she obeyed the orders of the Knight of the Fish, what she expected to happen.
Who acts: princess · What happens: not know, obey, expect, happen, order · To what, where: princess, orders, Knight
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 princess | det |
| 2 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 known | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 known | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 known | advmod |
| 5 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 obeyed | punct |
| 7 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 obeyed | advmod |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 obeyed | nsubj |
| 9 | obeyed | obey | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 known | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 orders | det |
| 11 | orders | order | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 obeyed | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Knight | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Knight | det |
| 14 | Knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 orders | nmod |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 Fish | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Fish | det |
| 17 | Fish | Fish | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Knight | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 what | punct |
| 19 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 Knight | conj |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 expected | nsubj |
| 21 | expected | expect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 what | acl:relcl |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 happen | mark |
| 23 | happen | happen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 expected | xcomp |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 known | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not know | past · perfect · passive | the princess | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | obey | past | princess | the orders of the Knight of the Fish | vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent order=Theme | ||||
| 3 | expect | past | princess | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | happen not said to happen | to-infinitive | princess not said here | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | order | the Knight of the Fish | nom order «communication transitive»: of=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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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