More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 14, sentence 75
And they hated the king's daughter because she was so bonny.
Who acts: daughters, wife · What happens: hate, be · To what, where: daughter, bonny
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 (daughters, wife), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 hated | cc |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 hated | nsubj |
| 3 | hated | hate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 king | det |
| 5 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 king | case |
| 7 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hated | obj |
| 8 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 12 bonny | mark |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 bonny | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 bonny | cop |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 bonny | advmod |
| 12 | bonny | bonny | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hated | xcomp |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 hated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hate | past | daughters = daughter | the king's daughter | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer daughter=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | is a not said to happen | past | wife | bonny | tree rules |
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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