More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 14, sentence 74
Now, after a while, the king married again an ill-natured wife, with three ugly daughters of her own.
Who acts: king · What happens: marry · To what, where: natured wife
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 married | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Now | punct |
| 3 | after | after | ADP | _ | 5 while | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 while | det |
| 5 | while | while | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 married | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 while | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 king | det |
| 8 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 married | nsubj |
| 9 | married | marry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | again | again | ADV | _ | 9 married | advmod |
| 11 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 wife | det |
| 12 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 natured | amod |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 ill | punct |
| 14 | natured | natured | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 wife | amod |
| 15 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 married | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 daughters | punct |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 daughters | case |
| 18 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 daughters | nummod |
| 19 | ugly | ugly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 daughters | amod |
| 20 | daughters | daughter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 wife | nmod |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 own | case |
| 22 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 own | nmod:poss |
| 23 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 daughters | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 married | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | marry | participle | the king | a natured wife with three ugly daughters of wife's own | now; again; while | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
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.
Text: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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