The royal family in the news: a queen's death, a coronation, titles lost and illnesses announced, sentence 17
On 22 March 2024 the Princess of Wales announced in a video that she had cancer and was having chemotherapy, strong medicine to stop it coming back, and asked for privacy.
Who acts: Princess · What happens: announce, have, stop, come back, ask · To what, where: video, cancer, chemotherapy · 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 (Princess), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 March | case |
| 2 | 22 | 22 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 March | nummod |
| 3 | March | March | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 announced | obl |
| 4 | 2024 | 2024 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 March | nummod |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Princess | det |
| 6 | Princess | princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 announced | nsubj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Wales | case |
| 8 | Wales | Wales | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Princess | nmod |
| 9 | announced | announce | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 video | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 video | det |
| 12 | video | video | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 announced | obl |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 had | mark |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 had | nsubj |
| 15 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 announced | ccomp |
| 16 | cancer | cancer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 had | obj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 having | cc |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 having | aux |
| 19 | having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 had | conj |
| 20 | chemotherapy | chemotherapy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 having | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 medicine | punct |
| 22 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 medicine | amod |
| 23 | medicine | medicine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 chemotherapy | conj |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 stop | mark |
| 25 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 having | advcl |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 stop | obj |
| 27 | coming | come | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 25 stop | xcomp |
| 28 | back | back | ADV | _ | 27 coming | advmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 asked | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 asked | cc |
| 31 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 announced | conj |
| 32 | for | for | ADP | _ | 33 privacy | case |
| 33 | privacy | privacy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 asked | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 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 | the Princess of Wales | a video | march | vn order-58.3 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | have | past | Princess | cancer | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cancer=Patient | ||||
| 3 | have | past · progressive | Princess not said here | chemotherapy and strong medicine | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chemotherapy=Patient | ||||
| 4 | stop | to-infinitive | Princess not said here | chemotherapy | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | come back | gerund | Princess not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | ask speech: ask | past | the Princess of Wales not said here | for privacy | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=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:17.
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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