The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 100
Once upon a time there lived a queen who had a beautiful cat, the colour of smoke, with china-blue eyes, which she was very fond of.
Who acts: queen, blue eyes · What happens: live, have, be · To what, where: queen, beautiful cat
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, 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 (queen, blue eyes), 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 | Once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 6 lived | advmod |
| 2 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 4 time | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 time | det |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lived | obl |
| 5 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 lived | advmod |
| 6 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 queen | det |
| 8 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lived | obj |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 had | nsubj |
| 10 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 queen | acl:relcl |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 cat | det |
| 12 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 cat | amod |
| 13 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 had | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 colour | punct |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 colour | det |
| 16 | colour | colour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 cat | appos |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 smoke | case |
| 18 | smoke | smoke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 colour | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 eyes | punct |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 eyes | case |
| 21 | china | china | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 blue | compound |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 china | punct |
| 23 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 eyes | amod |
| 24 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 lived | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 fond | punct |
| 26 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 30 fond | nsubj |
| 27 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 fond | nsubj |
| 28 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 fond | cop |
| 29 | very | very | ADV | _ | 30 fond | advmod |
| 30 | fond | fond | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 eyes | amod |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 fond | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | a queen | there | time | with blue eyes; once property | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme queen=Location | ||
| 2 | have | past | a queen | a beautiful cat | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cat=Patient | ||||
| 3 | is | past | blue eyes | fond property | tree rules |
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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