The Blue Fairy Book, Prince Hyacinth and the Dear Little Princess, sentence 18
But after all, they had not been married very long when the King died, and the Queen had nothing left to care for but her little son, who was called Hyacinth.
Who acts: King, Queen · What happens: not marry, die, have, leave, care, call · To what, where: hands, nothing, little son · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Hyacinth and the Dear Little Princess. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, 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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 long | cc |
| 2 | after | after | ADP | _ | 3 all | case |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 long | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 all | punct |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 married | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 married | aux |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 married | advmod |
| 8 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 married | aux:pass |
| 9 | married | marry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 all | acl:relcl |
| 10 | very | very | ADV | _ | 11 long | advmod |
| 11 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 12 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 15 died | mark |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 King | det |
| 14 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 died | nsubj |
| 15 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 long | advcl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 had | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 had | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Queen | det |
| 19 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 had | nsubj |
| 20 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 long | conj |
| 21 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 20 had | obj |
| 22 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 nothing | acl |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 care | mark |
| 24 | care | care | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 left | advcl |
| 25 | for | for | ADP | _ | 29 son | case |
| 26 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 29 son | cc |
| 27 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 son | nmod:poss |
| 28 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 son | amod |
| 29 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 care | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 called | punct |
| 31 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 33 called | nsubj:pass |
| 32 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 called | aux:pass |
| 33 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 29 son | acl:relcl |
| 34 | Hyacinth | Hyacinth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 called | xcomp |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 long | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not marry | past · perfect · passive | hands = hand | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 2 | die | past | the King | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | have | past | the Queen | nothing | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient | ||||
| 4 | leave | participle | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | care | to-infinitive | for Queen's little son | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent for son=Theme | |||||
| 6 | call | past · passive | Queen's little son | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
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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