More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 15, sentence 84
Then sang the Queen of Elfland as the court turned away and began to resume its march:
Who acts: court · What happens: sing, turn away, begin, resume · To what, where: Queen, march
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (court), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 sang | advmod |
| 2 | sang | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Queen | det |
| 4 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 sang | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Elfland | case |
| 6 | Elfland | Elfland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Queen | nmod |
| 7 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 10 turned | mark |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 court | det |
| 9 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 turned | nsubj |
| 10 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 sang | advcl |
| 11 | away | away | ADV | _ | 10 turned | advmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 began | cc |
| 13 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 turned | conj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 resume | mark |
| 15 | resume | resume | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 began | xcomp |
| 16 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 march | nmod:poss |
| 17 | march | march | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 resume | obj |
| 18 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 2 sang | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sing speech: express | past | the Queen of Elfland | then | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location queen=Theme | ||||
| 2 | turn away | past | the court | away property | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | begin | past | the court not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | resume | to-infinitive | the court not said here | mantle's march | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent march=Eventuality |
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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