The royal family in the news: a queen's death, a coronation, titles lost and illnesses announced, sentence 14
It was reported in October 2025 that the King was taking away Andrew's titles altogether, so he is now known as Andrew Mountbatten Windsor.
Who acts: King, Andrew · What happens: report, take away, know, title · To what, where: case, titles, King
This is a sentence of the lesson «The royal family in the news: a queen's death, a coronation, titles lost and illnesses announced» 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 (King, Andrew), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 reported | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 reported | aux:pass |
| 3 | reported | report | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 October | case |
| 5 | October | October | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 reported | obl |
| 6 | 2025 | 2025 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 October | flat |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 taking | mark |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 King | det |
| 9 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 taking | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 taking | aux |
| 11 | taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 reported | ccomp |
| 12 | away | away | ADP | _ | 11 taking | compound:prt |
| 13 | Andrew | Andrew | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 titles | nmod:poss |
| 14 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 13 Andrew | case |
| 15 | titles | title | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 taking | obj |
| 16 | altogether | altogether | ADV | _ | 11 taking | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 known | punct |
| 18 | so | so | ADV | _ | 22 known | advmod |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 known | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 known | aux:pass |
| 21 | now | now | ADV | _ | 22 known | advmod |
| 22 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 reported | conj |
| 23 | as | as | ADP | _ | 25 Mountbatten | case |
| 24 | Andrew | Andrew | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 Mountbatten | compound |
| 25 | Mountbatten | Mountbatten | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 known | obl |
| 26 | Windsor | Windsor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 Mountbatten | flat |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 reported | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | report | past · passive | case | october | vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: subject=Theme clause=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | take away | past · progressive | the King | Andrew's titles | altogether property | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent title=Theme | |||
| 3 | know | present · passive | King | now | as Andrew Mountbatten | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus as mountbatten=Attribute | |||
| 4 | title | Andrew | nom title «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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:045-the-royal-family-in-the-news-a-queens-death-a-coronation-titles-lost-and-illnesses-announced.lesson:14.
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): R8-pos-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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