The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 91
The queen’s heart swelled with joy as she read these words, and she bade her son lose no time in testing their truth.
Who acts: heart, queen, time · What happens: swell, read, bade, lose, test · To what, where: words, son, truth
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, 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 (heart, queen, time), 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 queen | det |
| 2 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 heart | nmod:poss |
| 3 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 2 queen | case |
| 4 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 swelled | nsubj |
| 5 | swelled | swell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 joy | case |
| 7 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 swelled | obl |
| 8 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 10 read | mark |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 read | nsubj |
| 10 | read | read | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 swelled | advcl |
| 11 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 12 words | det |
| 12 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 read | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 bade | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 bade | cc |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 bade | nsubj |
| 16 | bade | bade | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 lose | parataxis |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 son | nmod:poss |
| 18 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 bade | obj |
| 19 | lose | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 swelled | advcl |
| 20 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 21 time | det |
| 21 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 lose | obj |
| 22 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 23 testing | mark |
| 23 | testing | test | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 21 time | acl |
| 24 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 truth | nmod:poss |
| 25 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 testing | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 swelled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swell | past | the queen's heart | with joy | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | read | past | queen | this words | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Topic | ||||
| 3 | bade | past | queen | queen's son | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | lose | present | the queen's heart not said here | time | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | test | gerund | no time not said here | words's truth | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent truth=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.
Text: «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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