The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 62
The queen had broken the last over the work she held in her hand, and with it the spell was broken too, and she lay dead.
Who acts: queen · What happens: break, hold, lie · To what, where: queen, work, hand
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), 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 broken | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 broken | aux |
| 4 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 last | det |
| 6 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 broken | conj |
| 7 | over | over | ADP | _ | 9 work | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 work | det |
| 9 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 broken | obl |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 held | nsubj |
| 11 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 work | acl:relcl |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 hand | case |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 hand | nmod:poss |
| 14 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 held | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 broken | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 broken | cc |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 it | case |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 broken | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 spell | det |
| 20 | spell | spell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 broken | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 broken | aux:pass |
| 22 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 broken | parataxis |
| 23 | too | too | ADV | _ | 22 broken | advmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 lay | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 lay | cc |
| 26 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 lay | nsubj |
| 27 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 broken | conj |
| 28 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 lay | xcomp |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 broken | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break | past · perfect · passive | the queen | the work | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | hold | past | queen | the work not said here | queen's hand | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent work=Theme in hand=Location | |||
| 3 | break | past · passive | work | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 4 | lie | past | queen | dead property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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