The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 98
In the middle of the city was a great open square, and here the queen wished the wager to take place.
Who acts: queen · What happens: be, wish, take · To what, where: great open square, middle, wager, place
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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 middle | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 middle | det |
| 3 | middle | middle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 square | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 city | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 city | det |
| 6 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 middle | nmod |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 square | cop |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 square | det |
| 9 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 square | amod |
| 10 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 square | amod |
| 11 | square | square | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 wished | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 wished | cc |
| 14 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 wished | advmod |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 queen | det |
| 16 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 wished | nsubj |
| 17 | wished | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 square | conj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 wager | det |
| 19 | wager | wager | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 wished | obj |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 take | mark |
| 21 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 wished | advcl |
| 22 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 take | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 square | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | a great open square | the middle of the city | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | wish | past | the queen | the wager | here | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot wager=Theme | |||
| 3 | take | to-infinitive | the queen not said here | place | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=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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