The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 53
The combat was declared unnecessary, and the queen pronounced herself quite satisfied, and ready to accept Rosald as her husband.
Who acts: queen · What happens: declare, pronounce, accept · To what, where: combat, queen, Rosald
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 (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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 combat | det |
| 2 | combat | combat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 declared | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 declared | aux:pass |
| 4 | declared | declare | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | unnecessary | unnecessary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 declared | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 pronounced | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 pronounced | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 queen | det |
| 9 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 pronounced | nsubj |
| 10 | pronounced | pronounce | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 declared | parataxis |
| 11 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 10 pronounced | obj |
| 12 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 13 satisfied | advmod |
| 13 | satisfied | satisfied | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 pronounced | xcomp |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 ready | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 ready | cc |
| 16 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 pronounced | conj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 accept | mark |
| 18 | accept | accept | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 ready | xcomp |
| 19 | Rosald | Rosald | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 accept | obj |
| 20 | as | as | ADP | _ | 22 husband | case |
| 21 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 husband | nmod:poss |
| 22 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 accept | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 declared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | declare speech: other | past · passive | the combat | unnecessary property | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | pronounce | past | the queen | queen | satisfied property | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Theme | |||
| 3 | accept | to-infinitive | the queen not said here | Rosald | as queen's husband | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent rosald=Theme as husband=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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