The Blue Fairy Book, Trusty John, sentence 104
After a time the Queen gave birth to twins, two small sons, who throve and grew, and were a constant joy to her.
Who acts: Queen, two small sons · What happens: give, throve, grow, be · To what, where: birth, twins, constant joy, Queen
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Trusty John. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Queen, two small sons), 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 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 gave | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Queen | det |
| 5 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 gave | nsubj |
| 6 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | birth | birth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 gave | obj |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 twins | case |
| 9 | twins | twin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 gave | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 sons | punct |
| 11 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 sons | nummod |
| 12 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 sons | amod |
| 13 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 twins | appos |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 throve | punct |
| 15 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 throve | nsubj |
| 16 | throve | throve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 sons | acl:relcl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 grew | cc |
| 18 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 throve | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 joy | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 joy | cc |
| 21 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 joy | cop |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 joy | det |
| 23 | constant | constant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 joy | amod |
| 24 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 gave | obl |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 her | case |
| 26 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 joy | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | the Queen | birth | twins | time | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent birth=Theme to twin=Recipient | ||
| 2 | throve | past | two small sons | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | grow | past | two small sons not said here | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | is a | past | a constant joy | Queen | tree rules |
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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