The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 18

The king was at his council and the queen was ill in bed, so there was no one to stop the princess, and she hastily ran across the gardens to the houses where the servants lived.

Who acts: king, queen, one, princess, servants · What happens: be, stop, run, live · To what, where: council, bed, princess, gardens

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 (king, queen, one, princess), 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 king	det
2	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 council	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 council	cop
4	at	at	ADP	_	6 council	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 council	nmod:poss
6	council	council	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 ill	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 queen	det
9	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 ill	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 ill	cop
11	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 council	conj
12	in	in	ADP	_	13 bed	case
13	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 ill	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 was	punct
15	so	so	ADV	_	17 was	advmod
16	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	17 was	expl
17	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 council	parataxis
18	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	19 one	det
19	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 was	nsubj
20	to	to	PART	_	21 stop	mark
21	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 one	acl
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 princess	det
23	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 stop	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 ran	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 ran	cc
26	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 ran	nsubj
27	hastily	hastily	ADV	_	28 ran	advmod
28	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 was	conj
29	across	across	ADP	_	31 gardens	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 gardens	det
31	gardens	garden	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 ran	obl
32	to	to	ADP	_	34 houses	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 houses	det
34	houses	house	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 ran	obl
35	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	38 lived	advmod
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 servants	det
37	servants	servant	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 lived	nsubj
38	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 houses	acl:relcl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 council	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the king		king's council		tree rules
2	is	past	the queen		bed	ill property	tree rules
3	be	past	no one		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	stop	to-infinitive	no one not said here	the princess			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality princess=Eventuality
5	run	past	princess		the gardens	to the houses result; hastily property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to house=Result
6	live	past	the servants				vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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