The Blue Fairy Book, The Terrible Head, sentence 18
So he thought of a plan to get rid of the boy, and this was his plan: A great Queen of a country not far off was going to be married, and this king said that all his subjects must bring him wedding presents to give her.
Who acts: boy, this, great Queen, king, subjects · What happens: think, get, be, not go, marry, say · To what, where: plan, wedding presents, boy, Queen · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Terrible Head. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy, this, great Queen, king), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 thought | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 thought | nsubj |
| 3 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 plan | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 plan | det |
| 6 | plan | plan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 thought | obl |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 get | mark |
| 8 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 plan | acl |
| 9 | rid | rid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 get | xcomp |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 boy | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 boy | det |
| 12 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 rid | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 plan | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 plan | cc |
| 15 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 plan | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 plan | cop |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 plan | nmod:poss |
| 18 | plan | plan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 thought | ccomp |
| 19 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 22 Queen | punct |
| 20 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 Queen | det |
| 21 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 Queen | amod |
| 22 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 going | nsubj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 country | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 country | det |
| 25 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 Queen | nmod |
| 26 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 30 going | advmod |
| 27 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 28 off | advmod |
| 28 | off | off | ADV | _ | 30 going | advmod |
| 29 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 going | aux |
| 30 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 plan | parataxis |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 33 married | mark |
| 32 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 33 married | aux:pass |
| 33 | married | marry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 30 going | xcomp |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 said | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 said | cc |
| 36 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 37 king | det |
| 37 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 said | nsubj |
| 38 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 thought | conj |
| 39 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 44 bring | mark |
| 40 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 42 subjects | det:predet |
| 41 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 42 subjects | nmod:poss |
| 42 | subjects | subject | NOUN | Number=Plur | 44 bring | nsubj |
| 43 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 44 bring | aux |
| 44 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 38 said | ccomp |
| 45 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 bring | obj |
| 46 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 presents | compound |
| 47 | presents | present | NOUN | Number=Plur | 44 bring | obj |
| 48 | to | to | PART | _ | 49 give | mark |
| 49 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 44 bring | conj |
| 50 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 49 give | iobj |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | boy | of a plan | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | get | to-infinitive | boy not said here | rid property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | is a | past | this | boy's plan | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | not go | past · progressive | a great Queen of a country | off property | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 5 | marry | to-infinitive · passive | a great Queen of a country not said here | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V» | |||||
| 6 | say speech: assert | past | this king | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 7 | bring | must | boy's subjects | wedding presents | boy | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination present=Theme | |||
| 8 | give | to-infinitive | boy's subjects not said here | Queen | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme |
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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