The Blue Fairy Book, The White Cat, part 2, sentence 60

The Queen, my mother, whom he loved dearly, had a passion for traveling and exploring, and when I was only a few weeks old she obtained his permission to visit a certain mountain of which she had heard many marvelous tales, and set out, taking with her a number of her attendants.

Who acts: company, Queen, I · What happens: love, have, be, obtain, visit, hear · To what, where: passion, permission, certain mountain, many marvelous tales, number

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The White Cat, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (company, Queen, I), 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	12 had	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 mother	punct
4	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 mother	nmod:poss
5	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Queen	appos
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 whom	punct
7	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 mother	nmod
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 loved	nsubj
9	loved	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 whom	acl:relcl
10	dearly	dearly	ADV	_	9 loved	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Queen	punct
12	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 passion	det
14	passion	passion	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 had	obj
15	for	for	ADP	_	16 traveling	case
16	traveling	traveling	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 passion	nmod
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 exploring	cc
18	exploring	exploring	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 traveling	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 obtained	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 obtained	cc
21	when	when	SCONJ	_	28 old	mark
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 old	nsubj
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 old	cop
24	only	only	ADV	_	28 old	advmod
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 weeks	det
26	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 weeks	amod
27	weeks	week	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 old	obl:unmarked
28	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 obtained	advcl
29	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 obtained	nsubj
30	obtained	obtain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 had	conj
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 permission	nmod:poss
32	permission	permission	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 obtained	obj
33	to	to	PART	_	34 visit	mark
34	visit	visit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 obtained	advcl
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 mountain	det
36	certain	certain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 mountain	amod
37	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 visit	obj
38	of	of	ADP	_	39 which	case
39	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	42 heard	obl
40	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 heard	nsubj
41	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 heard	aux
42	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	37 mountain	acl:relcl
43	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 tales	amod
44	marvelous	marvelous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 tales	amod
45	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 heard	obj
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 set	punct
47	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 set	cc
48	set	set	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 had	conj
49	out	out	ADP	_	48 set	compound:prt
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 taking	punct
51	taking	take	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	48 set	advcl
52	with	with	ADP	_	53 her	case
53	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	51 taking	obl
54	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	55 number	det
55	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 taking	obj
56	of	of	ADP	_	58 attendants	case
57	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	58 attendants	nmod:poss
58	attendants	attendant	NOUN	Number=Plur	55 number	nmod
59	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	love	past	company			dearly property	vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer
2	have	past	the Queen	a passion		for traveling and exploring	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent passion=Patient
3	is	past	I		week	old property	tree rules
4	obtain	past	Queen	company's permission			vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent permission=Theme
5	visit	to-infinitive	Queen not said here	a certain mountain			vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mountain=Co-Agent
6	hear	past · perfect	Queen	many marvelous tales		of a certain mountain	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer tale=Stimulus
7	set out	infinitive	the Queen not said here				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	take	gerund	the Queen not said here	a number of Queen's attendants		with Queen	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Theme
9	permit		company				nom permission «communication 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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