The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 83
Long, long ago, a king and queen reigned over a large and powerful country.
What happens: reign · To what, where: king, large country
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | Long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 ago | punct |
| 3 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 ago | advmod |
| 4 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 1 Long | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 king | punct |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 king | det |
| 7 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Long | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 queen | cc |
| 9 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 king | conj |
| 10 | reigned | reign | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 king | acl |
| 11 | over | over | ADP | _ | 16 country | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 country | det |
| 13 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 country | amod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 powerful | cc |
| 15 | powerful | powerful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 large | conj |
| 16 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 reigned | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Long | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reign | participle | a king and queen not said here | a large country | tree rules |
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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