The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 38
The moment she looked at him, the queen also felt that he was no ordinary man, and she welcomed him graciously, and asked him what had brought him to the city.
Who acts: queen, moment, prince · What happens: look, feel, be, welcome, ask, bring · To what, where: moment, ordinary man, prince · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (queen, moment, prince), 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 moment | det |
| 2 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 felt | nsubj |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 looked | nsubj |
| 4 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 moment | acl:relcl |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 him | case |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 looked | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 queen | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 queen | det |
| 9 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 moment | conj |
| 10 | also | also | ADV | _ | 11 felt | advmod |
| 11 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 man | mark |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 man | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 man | cop |
| 15 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 17 man | det |
| 16 | ordinary | ordinary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 man | amod |
| 17 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 felt | advcl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 welcomed | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 welcomed | cc |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 welcomed | nsubj |
| 21 | welcomed | welcome | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 felt | conj |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 welcomed | obj |
| 23 | graciously | graciously | ADV | _ | 21 welcomed | advmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 asked | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 asked | cc |
| 26 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 felt | conj |
| 27 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 asked | iobj |
| 28 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 30 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 29 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 brought | aux |
| 30 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 asked | ccomp |
| 31 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 brought | obj |
| 32 | to | to | ADP | _ | 34 city | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 city | det |
| 34 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 brought | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 felt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | queen | the moment and the queen not said here | at prince | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme moment=Attribute | |||
| 2 | feel | past | the moment and the queen | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | is a | past | prince | no ordinary man | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | welcome | past | queen | prince | graciously property | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||
| 5 | ask speech: ask | past | the moment and the queen not said here | prince | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 6 | bring | past · perfect · passive | prince | to the city | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme he=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: «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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