The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 25, sentence 43
'I was once a girl too,' answered the queen, when the fish had ended; 'and my father was the king of a great country.
Who acts: I, girl, father · What happens: be, answer, end · To what, where: girl, queen, fish, king
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, girl, father), 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 | _ | 6 girl | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 girl | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 girl | cop |
| 4 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 6 girl | advmod |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 girl | det |
| 6 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 answered | nsubj |
| 7 | too | too | ADV | _ | 6 girl | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 girl | punct |
| 9 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 girl | punct |
| 10 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 queen | det |
| 12 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 answered | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 ended | punct |
| 14 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 18 ended | mark |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 fish | det |
| 16 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 ended | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 ended | aux |
| 18 | ended | end | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 queen | acl:relcl |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 king | punct |
| 20 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 19 ; | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 king | cc |
| 22 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 father | nmod:poss |
| 23 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 king | nsubj |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 king | cop |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 king | det |
| 26 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 answered | parataxis |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 country | case |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 country | det |
| 29 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 country | amod |
| 30 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 king | nmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | I | a girl | once property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | a girl | the queen | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent queen=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | end | past · perfect · passive | the fish | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: subject=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | is a | past | my father | the king | of a great country | 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 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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