The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 28, sentence 39
And in all this the queen guessed truly, save that nine long years were to pass before he would consent to put another in her place.
Who acts: queen, father · What happens: guess, pass, consent, put · To what, where: another, place
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (queen, 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 guessed | cc |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 queen | case |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 queen | det:predet |
| 4 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 all | obj |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 queen | det |
| 6 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 guessed | nsubj |
| 7 | guessed | guess | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | truly | truly | ADV | _ | 7 guessed | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 pass | punct |
| 10 | save | save | ADP | _ | 14 years | case |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 years | nsubj |
| 12 | nine | nine | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 years | nummod |
| 13 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 years | amod |
| 14 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 pass | obl |
| 15 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 pass | aux |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 pass | mark |
| 17 | pass | pass | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 guessed | conj |
| 18 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 21 consent | mark |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 consent | nsubj |
| 20 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 consent | aux |
| 21 | consent | consent | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 pass | advcl |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 put | mark |
| 23 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 consent | xcomp |
| 24 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 23 put | obj |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 place | case |
| 26 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 place | nmod:poss |
| 27 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 put | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 guessed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | guess | past | all queen | truly property | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | pass | past | all queen not said here | year | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | consent | would | father | vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | put | to-infinitive | father not said here | another | queen's place | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent another=Theme in place=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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