The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 21

But when a few months had passed the king began to have doubts as to whether the minister’s choice had really been a wise one, and he noticed that his children lived more and more in their palace and never came near their stepmother.

Who acts: choice, king, children · What happens: pass, begin, have, be, notice, live · To what, where: few months, doubts, palace

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (choice, king, children), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	10 began	cc
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	7 passed	advmod
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 months	det
4	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 months	amod
5	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 passed	nsubj:pass
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 passed	aux
7	passed	pass	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 began	advcl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 king	det
9	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 passed	obj
10	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	to	to	PART	_	12 have	mark
12	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 began	xcomp
13	doubts	doubt	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 have	obj
14	as	as	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	26 one	case
15	to	to	ADP	_	14 as	fixed
16	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	26 one	mark
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 minister	det
18	minister	minister	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 choice	nmod:poss
19	’s	's	PART	_	18 minister	case
20	choice	choice	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 one	nsubj
21	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 one	aux
22	really	really	ADV	_	26 one	advmod
23	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	26 one	cop
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 one	det
25	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 one	amod
26	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 have	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 noticed	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 noticed	cc
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 noticed	nsubj
30	noticed	notice	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 began	conj
31	that	that	SCONJ	_	34 lived	mark
32	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 children	nmod:poss
33	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 lived	nsubj
34	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 noticed	advcl
35	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	34 lived	advmod
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 more	cc
37	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	35 more	conj
38	in	in	ADP	_	40 palace	case
39	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 palace	nmod:poss
40	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 lived	obl
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 came	cc
42	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	43 came	advmod
43	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 lived	conj
44	near	near	ADP	_	46 stepmother	case
45	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	46 stepmother	nmod:poss
46	stepmother	stepmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 came	obl
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	pass	past · perfect · passive		a few months			vn give-13.1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient king=Theme
2	begin	past					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	have	to-infinitive		doubts			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent doubt=Patient
4	is	past · perfect	the minister's choice			as a wise one	tree rules
5	notice	past	king				vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
6	live	past	king's children		children's palace		vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in palace=Location
7	not come	past	king's children not said here			near children's stepmother	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near stepmother=Location

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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