The Yellow Fairy Book, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 1, sentence 101
He perched on the top of a large orange tree, whence he was able to survey the scene and to gaze at pleasure on the Princess’s charms.
Who acts: King · What happens: perch, be, survey, gaze · To what, where: top, scene
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 perched | nsubj |
| 2 | perched | perch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 top | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 top | det |
| 5 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 perched | obl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 tree | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 tree | det |
| 8 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 tree | amod |
| 9 | orange | orange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 tree | amod |
| 10 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 top | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 able | punct |
| 12 | whence | whence | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 able | advmod |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 able | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 able | cop |
| 15 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 perched | conj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 survey | mark |
| 17 | survey | survey | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 able | xcomp |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 scene | det |
| 19 | scene | scene | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 survey | obj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 gaze | cc |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 gaze | mark |
| 22 | gaze | gaze | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 survey | conj |
| 23 | at | at | ADP | _ | 24 pleasure | case |
| 24 | pleasure | pleasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 gaze | obl |
| 25 | on | on | ADP | _ | 29 charms | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 Princess | det |
| 27 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 charms | nmod:poss |
| 28 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 27 Princess | case |
| 29 | charms | charm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 gaze | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 perched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | perch | past | King | the top of a large orange tree | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on top=Location | ||||
| 2 | is | past | King | able, whence property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | survey | to-infinitive | King not said here | the scene | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scene=Theme | ||||
| 4 | gaze | to-infinitive | King not said here | on the Princess's charms; at pleasure | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at pleasure=Theme |
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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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