The Green Fairy Book, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla, sentence 149
At these words Orion went off at a great pace, and was soon at the other end of the King’s gardens.
Who acts: Orion · What happens: go off, be · To what, where: words, other end
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Orion), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 words | case |
| 2 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 3 words | det |
| 3 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 went | obl |
| 4 | Orion | Orion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 went | nsubj |
| 5 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | off | off | ADP | _ | 5 went | compound:prt |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 pace | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 pace | det |
| 9 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 pace | amod |
| 10 | pace | pace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 went | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 end | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 end | cc |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 end | cop |
| 14 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 18 end | advmod |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 end | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 end | det |
| 17 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 end | amod |
| 18 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 went | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 gardens | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 King | det |
| 21 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 gardens | nmod:poss |
| 22 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 21 King | case |
| 23 | gardens | garden | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 end | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go off | past | Orion | this words | at a great pace | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at word=Location | |||
| 2 | is | past | at the other end | of the King's gardens; soon property | 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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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