The royal family in the news: a wedding, a move to America, an interview and a book, sentence 18
Charles became King the moment his mother died and was crowned with Queen Camilla at Westminster Abbey on 6 May 2023, which was also Harry's son Archie's birthday; Harry came, and Meghan stayed in California with the children.
Who acts: Charles, mother, birthday, Harry, Meghan · What happens: become, die, crown, be, come, stay · To what, where: moment, Westminster Abbey, son, California
This is a sentence of the lesson «The royal family in the news: a wedding, a move to America, an interview and a book» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Charles, mother, birthday, Harry), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Charles | Charles | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 became | nsubj |
| 2 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 became | xcomp |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 moment | det |
| 5 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 became | obl:unmarked |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 mother | nmod:poss |
| 7 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 died | nsubj |
| 8 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 moment | acl:relcl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 crowned | cc |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 crowned | aux:pass |
| 11 | crowned | crown | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 died | conj |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 Queen | case |
| 13 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 crowned | obl |
| 14 | Camilla | Camilla | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Queen | flat |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 Abbey | case |
| 16 | Westminster | Westminster | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Abbey | compound |
| 17 | Abbey | Abbey | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 crowned | obl |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 6 | case |
| 19 | 6 | 6 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 11 crowned | obl |
| 20 | May | May | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 2023 | nmod:unmarked |
| 21 | 2023 | 2023 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 19 6 | nmod:unmarked |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 son | punct |
| 23 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 son | nsubj |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 son | cop |
| 25 | also | also | ADV | _ | 28 son | advmod |
| 26 | Harry | Harry | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 son | nmod:poss |
| 27 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 26 Harry | case |
| 28 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 birthday | nmod:poss |
| 29 | Archie | Archie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 son | appos |
| 30 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 29 Archie | case |
| 31 | birthday | birthday | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 6 | appos |
| 32 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 34 came | punct |
| 33 | Harry | Harry | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 came | nsubj |
| 34 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 became | parataxis |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 stayed | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 stayed | cc |
| 37 | Meghan | Meghan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 stayed | nsubj |
| 38 | stayed | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 came | conj |
| 39 | in | in | ADP | _ | 40 California | case |
| 40 | California | California | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 stayed | obl |
| 41 | with | with | ADP | _ | 43 children | case |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 children | det |
| 43 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 stayed | obl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 became | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | past | Charles | moment | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | die | past | Charles's mother | the moment not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | crown | past · passive | Charles's mother not said here | Westminster Abbey | with Queen; on 6 2023 May | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP PP.theme»: with queen=Theme | |||
| 4 | is a | past | Harry's son's birthday | Harry's son | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | come | past | Harry | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | stay | past | Meghan | California | with the children | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in california=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.
Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, mova-school-agreed-en.conllu) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence school:adult-life:044-the-royal-family-in-the-news-a-wedding-a-move-to-america-an-interview-and-a-book.lesson:18.
The tree: Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1. The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.
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