The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 1, sentence 7
And to make her more vain than ever the Queen caused her portrait to be taken by the cleverest painters and sent it to several neighboring kings with whom she was very friendly.
Who acts: Queen, cleverest painters · What happens: make, cause, take, send, neighbor, be · To what, where: daughter, portrait, several neighboring kings
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Yellow Dwarf, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Queen, cleverest painters), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 make | cc |
| 2 | to | to | PART | _ | 3 make | mark |
| 3 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 make | obj |
| 5 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 6 vain | advmod |
| 6 | vain | vain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 make | xcomp |
| 7 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 11 caused | mark |
| 8 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 11 caused | advmod |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Queen | det |
| 10 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 caused | nsubj |
| 11 | caused | cause | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 vain | advcl |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 portrait | nmod:poss |
| 13 | portrait | portrait | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 caused | obj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 taken | mark |
| 15 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 taken | aux:pass |
| 16 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 caused | advcl |
| 17 | by | by | ADP | _ | 20 painters | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 painters | det |
| 19 | cleverest | clever | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 20 painters | amod |
| 20 | painters | painter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 taken | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 sent | cc |
| 22 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 taken | conj |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 sent | obj |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 kings | case |
| 25 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 kings | amod |
| 26 | neighboring | neighbor | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 27 kings | amod |
| 27 | kings | king | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 sent | obl |
| 28 | with | with | ADP | _ | 29 whom | case |
| 29 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 kings | acl:relcl |
| 30 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 friendly | nsubj |
| 31 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 friendly | cop |
| 32 | very | very | ADV | _ | 33 friendly | advmod |
| 33 | friendly | friendly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 whom | parataxis |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 make | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | to-infinitive | daughter | vain property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset she=Product | ||||
| 2 | cause | past | the Queen | queen's portrait | ever | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition portrait=Patient | |||
| 3 | take | to-infinitive · passive | the cleverest painters | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | send | past | the cleverest painters not said here | portrait | several neighboring kings | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to king=Destination | |||
| 5 | neighbor | gerund | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 6 | is | past | queen | friendly property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | portray | queen | nom portrait «communication transitive»: poss=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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