The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 32
And he turned towards the queen, who had not been present during the fight, but had just slipped into a seat by his right hand.
Who acts: king, queen · What happens: turn, not be, slip · To what, where: seat
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 turned | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 turned | nsubj |
| 3 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 6 queen | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 queen | det |
| 6 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 turned | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 present | punct |
| 8 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 present | nsubj |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 present | aux |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 present | advmod |
| 11 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 present | cop |
| 12 | present | present | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 queen | acl:relcl |
| 13 | during | during | ADP | _ | 15 fight | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 fight | det |
| 15 | fight | fight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 present | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 slipped | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 slipped | cc |
| 18 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 slipped | aux |
| 19 | just | just | ADV | _ | 20 slipped | advmod |
| 20 | slipped | slip | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 turned | conj |
| 21 | into | into | ADP | _ | 23 seat | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 seat | det |
| 23 | seat | seat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 slipped | obl |
| 24 | by | by | ADP | _ | 27 hand | case |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 hand | nmod:poss |
| 26 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 hand | amod |
| 27 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 slipped | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | past | king | towards the queen | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme towards queen=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | not is | past · perfect | the queen | during the fight | present property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | slip | past · perfect | king not said here | a seat | by king's right hand | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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