The Blue Fairy Book, The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood, sentence 79
But when the King was dead, which happened about two years afterward, and he saw himself lord and master, he openly declared his marriage; and he went in great ceremony to conduct his Queen to the palace.
Who acts: King, Prince · What happens: be, happen, see, declare, go, conduct · To what, where: Prince, marriage, great ceremony, Queen, palace
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, Prince), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 dead | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 dead | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 King | det |
| 4 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 dead | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 dead | cop |
| 6 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 happened | punct |
| 8 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 happened | nsubj |
| 9 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 dead | conj |
| 10 | about | about | ADV | _ | 11 two | advmod |
| 11 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 years | nummod |
| 12 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 afterward | obl:unmarked |
| 13 | afterward | afterward | ADV | _ | 9 happened | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 saw | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 saw | cc |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 saw | nsubj |
| 17 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 dead | conj |
| 18 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 17 saw | obj |
| 19 | lord | lord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 saw | obj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 master | cc |
| 21 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 lord | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 declared | punct |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 declared | nsubj |
| 24 | openly | openly | ADV | _ | 25 declared | advmod |
| 25 | declared | declare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 saw | conj |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 marriage | nmod:poss |
| 27 | marriage | marriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 declared | obj |
| 28 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 31 went | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 went | cc |
| 30 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 went | nsubj |
| 31 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 dead | conj |
| 32 | in | in | ADP | _ | 34 ceremony | case |
| 33 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 ceremony | amod |
| 34 | ceremony | ceremony | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 went | obl |
| 35 | to | to | PART | _ | 36 conduct | mark |
| 36 | conduct | conduct | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 went | advcl |
| 37 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 Queen | nmod:poss |
| 38 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 conduct | obj |
| 39 | to | to | ADP | _ | 41 palace | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 palace | det |
| 41 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 conduct | obl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 dead | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the King | dead property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | happen | past | afterward property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | see | past | Prince | Prince | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | declare speech: other | past | Prince | Prince's marriage | openly property | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent marriage=Attribute | |||
| 5 | go | past | Prince | great ceremony | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in ceremony=Location | ||||
| 6 | conduct | to-infinitive | Prince not said here | Prince's Queen | the palace | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent queen=Theme to palace=Destination | |||
| 7 | marry | Prince | nom marriage «state 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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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