The Blue Fairy Book, The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood, sentence 82
He left the government of the kingdom to the Queen his mother, and earnestly recommended to her care his wife and children.
Who acts: Prince · What happens: leave, recommend, care · To what, where: government, wife
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 (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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 left | nsubj |
| 2 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 government | det |
| 4 | government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 left | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 kingdom | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 kingdom | det |
| 7 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 government | nmod |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 Queen | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Queen | det |
| 10 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 left | obl |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 mother | nmod:poss |
| 12 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 left | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 recommended | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 recommended | cc |
| 15 | earnestly | earnestly | ADV | _ | 16 recommended | advmod |
| 16 | recommended | recommend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 left | conj |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 care | case |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 care | nmod:poss |
| 19 | care | care | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 recommended | advcl |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 wife | nmod:poss |
| 21 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 care | obj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 children | cc |
| 23 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 wife | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 left | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | past | Prince | the government of the kingdom | to the Queen | vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent government=Theme mother=Attribute | |||
| 2 | recommend | participle | Prince not said here | earnestly property | vn say-37.7-1-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | care | infinitive | Prince not said here | Prince's wife and children | 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 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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