The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 26, sentence 36
On she went right up to the queen, who bent and, taking the crown, placed it on her own head.
Who acts: Fish, queen · What happens: go, bend, take, place · To what, where: crown, peace, own head
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fish, 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 | On | on | SCONJ | _ | 3 went | mark |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 placed | advcl |
| 4 | right | right | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 8 queen | case |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 queen | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 queen | det |
| 8 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 bent | punct |
| 10 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 bent | nsubj |
| 11 | bent | bend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 queen | acl:relcl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 taking | cc |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 taking | punct |
| 14 | taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 bent | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 crown | det |
| 16 | crown | crown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 taking | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 placed | punct |
| 18 | placed | place | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 placed | obj |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 head | case |
| 21 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 head | nmod:poss |
| 22 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 head | amod |
| 23 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 placed | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 placed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Fish | up the queen; right property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme up queen=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | bend | past | the queen | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | take | gerund | the queen not said here | the crown | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crown=Theme | ||||
| 4 | place | past | peace | Fish's own head | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme on head=Destination |
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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