The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 1, sentence 79
The Queen, your mother, has promised you in marriage----”
Who acts: Queen · What happens: promise · To what, where: you, marriage
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), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Queen | det |
| 2 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 promised | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 mother | punct |
| 4 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 mother | nmod:poss |
| 5 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Queen | appos |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Queen | punct |
| 7 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 promised | aux |
| 8 | promised | promise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 promised | iobj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 marriage | case |
| 11 | marriage | marriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 promised | obl |
| 12 | ---- | ---- | PUNCT | _ | 8 promised | punct |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 promised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | promise speech: promise | present · perfect | the Queen | you | marriage | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent you=Theme |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/5/79/