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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

ccmarkobjadvmodxcompmarkadvmoddetnsubjadvclnmod:possobjmarkaux:passadvclcasedetamodoblccconjobjcaseamodamodoblcaseacl:relclnsubjcopadvmodparataxispunctrootAndCCONJtoPARTmakeVERBherPRONmoreADVvainADJthanSCONJeverADVtheDETQueenPROPNcausedVERBherPRONportraitNOUNtoPARTbeAUXtakenVERBbyADPtheDETcleverestADJpaintersNOUNandCCONJsentVERBitPRONtoADPseveralADJneighboringVERBkingsNOUNwithADPwhomPRONshePRONwasAUXveryADVfriendlyADJ.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1AndandCCONJ_3 makecc
2totoPART_3 makemark
3makemakeVERBMood=Imp VerbForm=Finrootroot
4hershePRONCase=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs3 makeobj
5moremoreADVDegree=Cmp6 vainadvmod
6vainvainADJDegree=Pos3 makexcomp
7thanthanSCONJ_11 causedmark
8evereverADVPronType=Ind11 causedadvmod
9thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art10 Queendet
10QueenQueenPROPNNumber=Sing11 causednsubj
11causedcauseVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin6 vainadvcl
12herherPRONCase=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs13 portraitnmod:poss
13portraitportraitNOUNNumber=Sing11 causedobj
14totoPART_16 takenmark
15bebeAUXVerbForm=Inf16 takenaux:pass
16takentakeVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass11 causedadvcl
17bybyADP_20 painterscase
18thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art20 paintersdet
19cleverestcleverADJDegree=Sup20 paintersamod
20painterspainterNOUNNumber=Plur16 takenobl
21andandCCONJ_22 sentcc
22sentsendVERBMood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin16 takenconj
23ititPRONCase=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs22 sentobj
24totoADP_27 kingscase
25severalseveralADJDegree=Pos27 kingsamod
26neighboringneighborVERBVerbForm=Ger27 kingsamod
27kingskingNOUNNumber=Plur22 sentobl
28withwithADP_29 whomcase
29whomwhomPRONPronType=Rel27 kingsacl:relcl
30sheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs33 friendlynsubj
31wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin33 friendlycop
32veryveryADV_33 friendlyadvmod
33friendlyfriendlyADJDegree=Pos29 whomparataxis
34..PUNCT_3 makepunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1maketo-infinitivedaughtervain propertyvn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset she=Product
2causepastthe Queenqueen's portraitevervn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition portrait=Patient
3taketo-infinitive · passivethe cleverest paintersvn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4sendpastthe cleverest painters not said hereportraitseveral neighboring kingsvn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to king=Destination
5neighborgerundvn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme
6ispastqueenfriendly propertytree rules
7portrayqueennom 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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