The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 7, sentence 22
Long ago a king and queen ruled over the islands of the west, and they had one son, whom they loved dearly.
Who acts: king · What happens: rule, have, love · To what, where: islands, one son
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king), 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 | Long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 2 ago | advmod |
| 2 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 7 ruled | advmod |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 king | det |
| 4 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 ruled | nsubj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 queen | cc |
| 6 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 king | conj |
| 7 | ruled | rule | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | over | over | ADP | _ | 10 islands | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 islands | det |
| 10 | islands | island | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 ruled | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 west | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 west | det |
| 13 | west | west | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 islands | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 had | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 had | cc |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 had | nsubj |
| 17 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 ruled | conj |
| 18 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 son | nummod |
| 19 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 had | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 loved | punct |
| 21 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 loved | obj |
| 22 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 loved | nsubj |
| 23 | loved | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 son | acl:relcl |
| 24 | dearly | dearly | ADV | _ | 23 loved | advmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 ruled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rule | participle | a king and queen | the islands of the west | ago property | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | have | past | king | one son | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient | ||||
| 3 | love | past | king | one son | dearly property | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer whom=Stimulus |
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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