The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 15
Meanwhile the two eldest princesses had become women, and had married two powerful kings who ruled over great countries across the sea.
Who acts: two eldest princesses, two powerful kings · What happens: become, marry, rule · To what, where: women, two powerful kings, great countries, sea
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two eldest princesses, two powerful kings), 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 | Meanwhile | meanwhile | ADV | _ | 7 become | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 princesses | det |
| 3 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 princesses | nummod |
| 4 | eldest | eld | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 5 princesses | amod |
| 5 | princesses | princess | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 become | nsubj |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 become | aux |
| 7 | become | become | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 8 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 become | xcomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 married | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 married | cc |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 married | aux |
| 12 | married | marry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 become | conj |
| 13 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 kings | nummod |
| 14 | powerful | powerful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 kings | amod |
| 15 | kings | king | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 married | obj |
| 16 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 ruled | nsubj |
| 17 | ruled | rule | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 kings | acl:relcl |
| 18 | over | over | ADV | _ | 20 countries | advmod |
| 19 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 countries | amod |
| 20 | countries | country | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 ruled | obl |
| 21 | across | across | ADP | _ | 23 sea | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 sea | det |
| 23 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 ruled | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 become | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | past · perfect | the two eldest princesses | women | meanwhile property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | |||
| 2 | marry | past · perfect | the two eldest princesses not said here | two powerful kings | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=Patient | ||||
| 3 | rule | past | two powerful kings | great countries | the sea | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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