The Blue Fairy Book, The Wonderful Sheep, part 2, sentence 79
After some time came the news that the King’s second daughter was going to be married.
Who acts: second daughter · What happens: come, go, marry · To what, where: news
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Wonderful Sheep, 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 (second daughter), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 3 time | case |
| 2 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | obl |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 news | det |
| 6 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | obj |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 going | mark |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 King | det |
| 9 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 10 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 9 King | case |
| 11 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 12 daughter | amod |
| 12 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 going | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 going | aux |
| 14 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 news | acl |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 married | mark |
| 16 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 married | aux:pass |
| 17 | married | marry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 going | xcomp |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the news | time | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location news=Theme | ||||
| 2 | go | past · progressive | the King's second daughter | the news not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | marry | to-infinitive · passive | the King's second daughter not said here | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V» |
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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