The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 22
The queen declared she had had nothing to do with the matter; if her son had happened to take the key it had not been with her knowledge.
Who acts: queen, son, key · What happens: declare, have, do, happen, take, not be · To what, where: nothing, key · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (queen, son, key), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 queen | det |
| 2 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 declared | nsubj |
| 3 | declared | declare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 had | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 had | aux |
| 6 | had | have | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 declared | ccomp |
| 7 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 6 had | obj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 do | mark |
| 9 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 nothing | acl |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 matter | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 matter | det |
| 12 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 do | obl |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 happened | punct |
| 14 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 18 happened | mark |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 son | nmod:poss |
| 16 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 happened | nsubj |
| 17 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 happened | aux |
| 18 | happened | happen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 declared | conj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 take | mark |
| 20 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 happened | xcomp |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 key | det |
| 22 | key | key | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 take | obj |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 had | nsubj |
| 24 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 key | acl:relcl |
| 25 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 29 knowledge | advmod |
| 26 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 29 knowledge | cop |
| 27 | with | with | ADP | _ | 29 knowledge | case |
| 28 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 knowledge | nmod:poss |
| 29 | knowledge | knowledge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 had | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 declared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | declare speech: other | past | the queen | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | have | past · perfect | queen | nothing | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient | ||||
| 3 | do | to-infinitive | queen not said here | nothing not said here | with the matter | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 4 | happen a condition, not said to happen | past · perfect | queen's son | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | take | to-infinitive | queen's son not said here | the key | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent key=Theme | ||||
| 6 | have | past | key | the key not said here | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent key=Patient | ||||
| 7 | not is | participle | with queen's knowledge | 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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