Fifty Famous Stories Retold, IV. the Cat., sentence 20
The king had never been so glad in his life; and the queen asked that the creature which had done such wonders should be brought to her.
Who acts: king, queen, creature · What happens: have, not be, ask, do, bring · To what, where: life, such wonders, creature, queen · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, IV. the Cat.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, queen, creature), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 king | det |
| 2 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 had | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 7 glad | advmod |
| 5 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 glad | cop |
| 6 | so | so | ADV | _ | 7 glad | advmod |
| 7 | glad | glad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 had | ccomp |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 life | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 life | nmod:poss |
| 10 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 glad | obl |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 asked | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 asked | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 queen | det |
| 14 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 asked | nsubj |
| 15 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 had | parataxis |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 26 brought | mark |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 creature | det |
| 18 | creature | creature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 done | nsubj |
| 20 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 done | aux |
| 21 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 18 creature | acl:relcl |
| 22 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 wonders | amod |
| 23 | wonders | wonder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 done | obj |
| 24 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 brought | aux |
| 25 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 26 brought | aux:pass |
| 26 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 asked | ccomp |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 her | case |
| 28 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 brought | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | the king | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | not is | participle | the king not said here | king's life | glad property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | the queen | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | do | past · perfect | the creature | such wonders | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wonder=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | bring | should · passive | the creature | queen | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to she=Destination |
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: «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Project Gutenberg book 18442 (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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