The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 23, sentence 11
The queen hastened to the marble tower, and told her daughter of the sad state of the prince.
Who acts: queen · What happens: hasten, tell · To what, where: queen, marble tower, daughter · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, 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), 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 | 10 told | nsubj |
| 3 | hastened | hasten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 queen | acl |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 tower | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 tower | det |
| 6 | marble | marble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 tower | compound |
| 7 | tower | tower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hastened | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 told | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 told | cc |
| 10 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 12 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 told | iobj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 state | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 state | det |
| 15 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 state | amod |
| 16 | state | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 daughter | nmod |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 prince | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 prince | det |
| 19 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 state | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hasten | participle | the queen not said here | the marble tower | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to tower=Destination | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past | the queen | queen's daughter of the sad state of the prince | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent daughter=Recipient |
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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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