The royal family in the news: a queen's death, a coronation, titles lost and illnesses announced, sentence 15
In January 2024 Kensington Palace announced that the Princess of Wales had had planned surgery on her tummy and would be away until after Easter; the online theories about her absence were rumours, and none were true.
Who acts: Kensington Palace, Princess, online theories, none · What happens: announce, have, plan, be, absent · To what, where: planned surgery, tummy, rumours · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Kensington Palace, Princess, online theories, none), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 January | case |
| 2 | January | January | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 announced | obl |
| 3 | 2024 | 2024 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 January | nummod |
| 4 | Kensington | Kensington | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Palace | compound |
| 5 | Palace | Palace | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 announced | nsubj |
| 6 | announced | announce | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 had | mark |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Princess | det |
| 9 | Princess | princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 had | nsubj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 Wales | case |
| 11 | Wales | Wales | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Princess | nmod |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 had | aux |
| 13 | had | have | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 announced | ccomp |
| 14 | planned | plan | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 surgery | amod |
| 15 | surgery | surgery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 had | obj |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 tummy | case |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 tummy | nmod:poss |
| 18 | tummy | tummy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 surgery | nmod |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 away | cc |
| 20 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 away | aux |
| 21 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 22 away | cop |
| 22 | away | away | ADV | _ | 13 had | conj |
| 23 | until | until | ADP | _ | 25 Easter | case |
| 24 | after | after | ADP | _ | 25 Easter | case |
| 25 | Easter | Easter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 away | obl |
| 26 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 34 rumours | punct |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 theories | det |
| 28 | online | online | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 theories | amod |
| 29 | theories | theory | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 rumours | nsubj |
| 30 | about | about | ADP | _ | 32 absence | case |
| 31 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 absence | nmod:poss |
| 32 | absence | absence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 theories | nmod |
| 33 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 rumours | cop |
| 34 | rumours | rumour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 announced | parataxis |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 true | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 true | cc |
| 37 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 39 true | nsubj |
| 38 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 true | cop |
| 39 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 rumours | conj |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 announced | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | announce speech: other | past | Kensington Palace | january | vn order-58.3 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | have | past · perfect | the Princess of Wales | planned surgery | Princess's tummy | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent surgery=Patient | |||
| 3 | plan | participle | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | is | would | the Princess of Wales not said here | until Easter | away property | tree rules | |||
| 5 | is a | past | the online theories about Princess's absence | rumours | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | is | past | none | true property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | absent | Princess | nom absence «state 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:15.
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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