The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 91
These were the queen’s last words, and a few hours later she was dead.
Who acts: These, queen · What happens: be
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: who acts (These, 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 | These | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 4 queen | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 queen | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 queen | det |
| 4 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 words | nsubj |
| 5 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 4 queen | case |
| 6 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 words | amod |
| 7 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 dead | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 dead | cc |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 hours | det |
| 11 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 hours | amod |
| 12 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 later | obl:unmarked |
| 13 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 16 dead | advmod |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 dead | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 dead | cop |
| 16 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 words | parataxis |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 words | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | These | 's the queen | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | past | queen | dead, late property | 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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