The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 86
No one suspected the truth except a priest to whom the queen confessed the truth, and in a few weeks she fell ill and died, leaving the baby to be brought up as became a prince.
Who acts: one, queen · What happens: suspect, confess, fall, die, leave, bring up · To what, where: truth, baby, prince
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one, 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 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 one | det |
| 2 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 suspected | nsubj |
| 3 | suspected | suspect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 truth | det |
| 5 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 suspected | obj |
| 6 | except | except | ADP | _ | 8 priest | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 priest | det |
| 8 | priest | priest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 suspected | obl |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 whom | case |
| 10 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 suspected | obl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 queen | det |
| 12 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 confessed | nsubj |
| 13 | confessed | confess | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 whom | acl:relcl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 truth | det |
| 15 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 confessed | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 fell | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 fell | cc |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 weeks | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 weeks | det |
| 20 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 weeks | amod |
| 21 | weeks | week | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 fell | obl |
| 22 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 fell | nsubj |
| 23 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 suspected | parataxis |
| 24 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 fell | xcomp |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 died | cc |
| 26 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 fell | conj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 leaving | punct |
| 28 | leaving | leave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 26 died | advcl |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 baby | det |
| 30 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 leaving | obj |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 33 brought | mark |
| 32 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 33 brought | aux:pass |
| 33 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 30 baby | acl |
| 34 | up | up | ADP | _ | 33 brought | compound:prt |
| 35 | as | as | ADV | _ | 36 became | advmod |
| 36 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 brought | advcl |
| 37 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 prince | det |
| 38 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 became | xcomp |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 suspected | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | suspect | past | no one | the truth | except a priest | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent truth=Attribute | |||
| 2 | confess | past | the queen | the truth | vn confess-37.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent truth=Topic | ||||
| 3 | fall | past | queen | week | ill property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 4 | die | past | queen not said here | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 5 | leave | gerund | queen not said here | the baby | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent baby=Theme | ||||
| 6 | bring up | to-infinitive · passive | queen not said here | the baby not said here | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient» | ||||
| 7 | become | past | queen not said here | a prince | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
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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