The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 26, sentence 43
The prince, the queen's husband, had died some years since, and in his place was her son, who had grown up and was king!
Who acts: prince, place, son · What happens: die, be, grow up · To what, where: son, king
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 (prince, place, son), 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 prince | det |
| 2 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 died | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 husband | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 queen | det |
| 5 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 husband | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 queen | case |
| 7 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 prince | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 prince | punct |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 died | aux |
| 10 | died | die | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 11 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 12 years | det |
| 12 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 died | obl:unmarked |
| 13 | since | since | ADV | _ | 10 died | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 son | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 son | cc |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 place | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 place | nmod:poss |
| 18 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 son | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 son | cop |
| 20 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 son | nmod:poss |
| 21 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 died | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 grown | punct |
| 23 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 grown | nsubj |
| 24 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 grown | aux |
| 25 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 21 son | acl:relcl |
| 26 | up | up | ADP | _ | 25 grown | compound:prt |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 king | cc |
| 28 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 king | cop |
| 29 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 grown | conj |
| 30 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 10 died | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | die | past · perfect | the prince and the queen's husband | year | since property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||
| 2 | is a | past | husband's place | Fish's son | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | grow up | past · perfect | Fish's son | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | is a | past | Fish's son not said here | king | 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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