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The Blue Fairy Book, The History of Whittington, sentence 52

He then put her down on the Queen’s lap, where she, purring, played with her Majesty’s hand, and then sang herself to sleep.

Who acts: factor, Queen · What happens: put down, purr, play, sing, sleep · To what, where: Queen, lap

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The History of Whittington. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (factor, Queen), 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

nsubjadvmodobjcompound:prtcasedetnmod:posscaseoblpunctadvmodnsubjpunctadvclpunctparataxiscasenmod:possnmod:posscaseoblpunctccadvmodconjobjmarkadvclpunctrootHePRONthenADVputVERBherPRONdownADPonADPtheDETQueenPROPN’sPARTlapNOUN,PUNCTwhereADVshePRON,PUNCTpurringVERB,PUNCTplayedVERBwithADPherPRONMajestyNOUN’sPARThandNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJthenADVsangVERBherselfPRONtoPARTsleepVERB.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1HehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs3 putnsubj
2thenthenADVPronType=Dem3 putadvmod
3putputVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
4hershePRONCase=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs3 putobj
5downdownADP_3 putcompound:prt
6ononADP_10 lapcase
7thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art8 Queendet
8QueenQueenPROPNNumber=Sing10 lapnmod:poss
9’s'sPART_8 Queencase
10laplapNOUNNumber=Sing3 putobl
11,,PUNCT_15 purringpunct
12wherewhereADVPronType=Rel15 purringadvmod
13sheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs15 purringnsubj
14,,PUNCT_15 purringpunct
15purringpurrVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part3 putadvcl
16,,PUNCT_17 playedpunct
17playedplayVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin3 putparataxis
18withwithADP_22 handcase
19herherPRONCase=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs20 Majestynmod:poss
20MajestymajestyNOUNNumber=Sing22 handnmod:poss
21’s'sPART_20 Majestycase
22handhandNOUNNumber=Sing17 playedobl
23,,PUNCT_26 sangpunct
24andandCCONJ_26 sangcc
25thenthenADVPronType=Dem26 sangadvmod
26sangsingVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin17 playedconj
27herselfherselfPRONCase=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes26 sangobj
28totoPART_29 sleepmark
29sleepsleepVERBVerbForm=Inf26 sangadvcl
30..PUNCT_3 putpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1put downpastfactorQueenthe Queen's lapthenvn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme on lap=Destination
2purrgerundQueenvn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3playpastwith Queen's Majesty's handvn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with hand=Theme
4sing speech: expresspastQueenthenvn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location herself=Theme
5sleepto-infinitivevn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=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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