The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 9
He was still sleeping when the queen rose and dressed herself, to make everything ready for her husband’s journey; and the first place she went to was the stable, where she fed and watered the shaggy brown horse and put the saddle on it.
Who acts: king, queen, first place, place, husband · What happens: sleep, rise, dress, make, go, be · To what, where: queen, everything, stable, shaggy brown horse, saddle
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 9. 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, first place, place), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 sleeping | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sleeping | aux |
| 3 | still | still | ADV | _ | 4 sleeping | advmod |
| 4 | sleeping | sleep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 rose | advcl |
| 5 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 rose | advmod |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 queen | det |
| 7 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 rose | nsubj |
| 8 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 dressed | cc |
| 10 | dressed | dress | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 rose | conj |
| 11 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 10 dressed | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 make | punct |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 make | mark |
| 14 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 dressed | advcl |
| 15 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 14 make | obj |
| 16 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 make | xcomp |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 journey | case |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 husband | nmod:poss |
| 19 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 journey | nmod:poss |
| 20 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 19 husband | case |
| 21 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 ready | obl |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 went | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 went | cc |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 place | det |
| 25 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 26 place | amod |
| 26 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 went | nsubj |
| 27 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 went | nsubj |
| 28 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 rose | conj |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 stable | mark |
| 30 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 stable | cop |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 stable | det |
| 32 | stable | stable | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 went | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 fed | punct |
| 34 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 36 fed | advmod |
| 35 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 fed | nsubj |
| 36 | fed | feed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 stable | acl:relcl |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 watered | cc |
| 38 | watered | water | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 went | conj |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 horse | det |
| 40 | shaggy | shaggy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 horse | amod |
| 41 | brown | brown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 horse | amod |
| 42 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 watered | obj |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 put | cc |
| 44 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 38 watered | conj |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 saddle | det |
| 46 | saddle | saddle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 put | obj |
| 47 | on | on | ADP | _ | 48 it | case |
| 48 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 put | obl |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 rose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sleep | past · progressive | king | still | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | rise | past | the queen | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | dress | past | the queen not said here | queen | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Patient | ||||
| 4 | make | to-infinitive | the queen not said here | everything | ready property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset everything=Product | |||
| 5 | go | past | the first place | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | is a | past | the stable | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | feed | past | place | vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 8 | water | past | the first place not said here | the shaggy brown horse | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent horse=Destination | ||||
| 9 | put | infinitive | the first place not said here | the saddle | saddle | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent saddle=Theme on it=Destination | |||
| 10 | journey | queen's husband | nom journey «act transitive»: 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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