The Blue Fairy Book, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 217
The Queen was in a great state, and offered the little man all the riches in her kingdom if he would only leave her the child.
Who acts: Queen, great state, man · What happens: be, offer, leave · To what, where: great state, riches, little man, kingdom, Queen
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Queen, great state, man), 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 | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 state | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 state | cop |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 state | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 state | det |
| 6 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 state | amod |
| 7 | state | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 offered | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 offered | cc |
| 10 | offered | offer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 state | acl:relcl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 man | det |
| 12 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 man | amod |
| 13 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 offered | obj |
| 14 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 riches | det:predet |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 riches | det |
| 16 | riches | rich | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 offered | obj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 kingdom | case |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 kingdom | nmod:poss |
| 19 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 offered | obl |
| 20 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 24 leave | mark |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 leave | nsubj |
| 22 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 leave | aux |
| 23 | only | only | ADV | _ | 24 leave | advmod |
| 24 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 offered | advcl |
| 25 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 leave | obj |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 child | det |
| 27 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 leave | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 state | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the Queen | a great state | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | offer | past | a great state not said here | all riches | the little man | Queen's kingdom | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent man=Goal rich=Theme | ||
| 3 | leave a condition, not said to happen | would | man | Queen | vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent she=Theme child=Attribute |
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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