The Violet Fairy Book, The Child Who Came From an Egg, sentence 41

Soon there came a day when the whole court was ordered to be present at the christening of the royal babies, and when all was ready the queen softly opened the window a little, and let the goose wing fly out.

Who acts: whole court, all, queen, goose wing · What happens: come, order, be, open, let, fly out · To what, where: whole court, christening, window, goose wing, royal babies

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Child Who Came From an Egg. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (whole court, all, queen, goose wing), 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	Soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 came	advmod
2	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 came	expl
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 day	det
5	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 came	obl:unmarked
6	when	when	SCONJ	_	11 ordered	mark
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 court	det
8	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 court	amod
9	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 ordered	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 ordered	aux:pass
11	ordered	order	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 came	advcl
12	to	to	PART	_	14 present	mark
13	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 present	cop
14	present	present	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 ordered	xcomp
15	at	at	ADP	_	17 christening	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 christening	det
17	christening	christening	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 present	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	21 babies	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 babies	det
20	royal	royal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 babies	amod
21	babies	baby	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 christening	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 ready	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 ready	cc
24	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	27 ready	advmod
25	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	27 ready	nsubj
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 ready	cop
27	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 came	conj
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 queen	det
29	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 opened	nsubj
30	softly	softly	ADV	_	31 opened	advmod
31	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 ready	parataxis
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 window	det
33	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 opened	obj
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 little	det
35	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 opened	obl:unmarked
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 let	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 let	cc
38	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 came	conj
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 wing	det
40	goose	goose	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 wing	compound
41	wing	wing	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 let	obj
42	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 let	xcomp
43	out	out	ADP	_	42 fly	compound:prt
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past			there	day	soon property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	order	past · passive		the whole court				vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
3	is not said to happen	to-infinitive	the whole court not said here		the christening of the royal babies		present property	tree rules
4	is	past	all				ready property	tree rules
5	open	past	the queen	the window			a little obl:unmarked; softly property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location window=Theme
6	let	infinitive		the goose wing				tree rules
7	fly out	infinitive	the goose wing not said here					vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	christen			the royal babies				nom christening «act 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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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