The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 69
The queen listened in silence to his tale, and after he had finished, she only said:
Who acts: son, queen · What happens: listen, finish, say, tell · To what, where: queen · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, 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 (son, 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 queen | det |
| 2 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 said | nsubj |
| 3 | listened | listen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 queen | acl |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 silence | case |
| 5 | silence | silence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 listened | obl |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 tale | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 tale | nmod:poss |
| 8 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 listened | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 said | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 said | cc |
| 11 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 14 finished | mark |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 finished | nsubj |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 finished | aux |
| 14 | finished | finish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 18 said | advcl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 finished | punct |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 said | nsubj |
| 17 | only | only | ADV | _ | 18 said | advmod |
| 18 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 18 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | listen | participle | the queen not said here | to son's tale; in silence | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in silence=Theme | ||||
| 2 | finish | past · perfect | son | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the queen | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | tell | son | nom tale «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |
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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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