The royal family in the news: a queen's death, a coronation, titles lost and illnesses announced, sentence 20
It was reported that in May 2025 Prince Harry lost a court case about having police guards when he visits Britain, and said in a BBC interview he would like to make up with his family.
Who acts: Prince Harry, court case, Harry · What happens: report, lose, have, visit, say, like · To what, where: type, court case, police guards, Britain, BBC interview · 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 (Prince Harry, court case, 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 | 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 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 lost | mark |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 May | case |
| 6 | May | May | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 lost | obl |
| 7 | 2025 | 2025 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 May | flat |
| 8 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Harry | compound |
| 9 | Harry | Harry | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 lost | nsubj |
| 10 | lost | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 reported | ccomp |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 case | det |
| 12 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 case | compound |
| 13 | case | case | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 lost | obj |
| 14 | about | about | SCONJ | _ | 15 having | mark |
| 15 | having | have | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 case | acl |
| 16 | police | police | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 guards | compound |
| 17 | guards | guard | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 having | obj |
| 18 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 20 visits | mark |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 visits | nsubj |
| 20 | visits | visit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 having | advcl |
| 21 | Britain | Britain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 visits | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 said | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 said | cc |
| 24 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 lost | conj |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 interview | case |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 interview | det |
| 27 | BBC | BBC | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 interview | compound |
| 28 | interview | interview | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 said | obl |
| 29 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 like | nsubj |
| 30 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 like | aux |
| 31 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 interview | acl:relcl |
| 32 | to | to | PART | _ | 33 make | mark |
| 33 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 like | xcomp |
| 34 | up | up | ADP | _ | 33 make | compound:prt |
| 35 | with | with | ADP | _ | 37 family | case |
| 36 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 family | nmod:poss |
| 37 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 make | obl |
| 38 | . | . | 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 | type | vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: subject=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | lose | past | Prince Harry | a court case | may | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent case=Eventuality | |||
| 3 | have | gerund | a court case not said here | police guards | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent guard=Patient | ||||
| 4 | visit | present | Harry | Britain | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent britain=Co-Agent | ||||
| 5 | say speech: assert | past | Prince Harry not said here | a BBC interview | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent in interview=Manner | ||||
| 6 | like | would | Harry | a BBC interview not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | make up not said to happen | to-infinitive | Harry not said here | with Harry's family | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
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:20.
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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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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