The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 27, sentence 47
If the castle had been gloomy, what did the queen feel about this?
Who acts: castle, queen · What happens: be, feel
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (castle, 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 6 gloomy | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 castle | det |
| 3 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 gloomy | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 gloomy | aux |
| 5 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 gloomy | cop |
| 6 | gloomy | gloomy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 feel | punct |
| 8 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 12 feel | obj |
| 9 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 feel | aux |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 queen | det |
| 11 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 feel | nsubj |
| 12 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 gloomy | conj |
| 13 | about | about | ADP | _ | 14 this | case |
| 14 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 feel | obl |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 gloomy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past · perfect | the castle | gloomy property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | feel | past · do-support | the queen | about this | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent what=Theme about this=Location |
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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