The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 52
“Here,” answered the queen, bringing forward the girl, whom she had hitherto kept in the background.
Who acts: queen, girl · What happens: answer, bring forward, keep · To what, where: girl, background
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 (queen, girl), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 answered | punct |
| 2 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 answered | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Here | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 answered | punct |
| 5 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 queen | det |
| 7 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 answered | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 bringing | punct |
| 9 | bringing | bring | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 answered | advcl |
| 10 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 9 bringing | advmod |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 girl | det |
| 12 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 bringing | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 kept | punct |
| 14 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 kept | obj |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 kept | nsubj |
| 16 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 kept | aux |
| 17 | hitherto | hitherto | ADV | _ | 18 kept | advmod |
| 18 | kept | keep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 girl | acl |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 background | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 background | det |
| 21 | background | background | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 kept | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | the queen | here | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | bring forward | gerund | the queen not said here | the girl | forward property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument girl=Destination | |||
| 3 | keep | past · perfect | girl | the girl | the background | hitherto property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent whom=Theme in background=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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